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| Monocultural Structure in a Field
Mathew Clay Freeman
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| | Monoculture is a term for a farm or an agricultural region that produces only one crop. A good example takes place in Ireland during its potato years, when every single potato in the country was genetically identical…so when one of them caught a disease, they all did. Another example would be the entire Midwestern cornfield.
These sorts of transactions with the Earth seemed to be indicative of many other things. In the suburbs for example, everything is constructed to exclusively fit the proportions of the human body and nothing else.
The inspiration behind the tower came from various historical forts and blockhouses planted all over the country. For me, these are great examples of devices used for both racial and ecological authority…simply by exterminating the cultures whose agricultural methods were less one-sided than European methods.
The tower is a metaphor for anything from the Green Zone in Iraq, to any suburban neighborhood that gets hysterical when a coyote is spotted. |
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