Jeff Aurila | 5300 Penn
Jeff Aurila - 5300 Penn
Steam plant to the left, which takes up space. It just manufactures steam. Apartments to the right or condos. They are probably still under construction, and are being built from the top down.
Aurila must be drawing an urban scene, something you’d find in a city. Moving into the city, everything becomes crammed for space. People who can’t afford a house in the suburbs move into the city so they don’t need cars. The car alarms, fire truck and ambulance sirens lead to lower property values. Crime is also higher with people getting shot.
Aurila might be drawing this as a symbol of hope, as the city still hasn’t been completed.
Then again, this could be post-apocalyptic, and all the trees and people are gone. They will come back at some point, but they are gone now. Jeff also probably thinks it would be nice to live so close to his neighbors and to work. No need for a commute. Apartments are probably for the workers at the steam plant.
Everything has its pluses and minuses.
Existentialism:
- Aurila leaves the line work raw to show how buildings start out. Built on top of this like architecture.
-Lines are a means to creation.
- Lines = creation = art = hope.
- Black is like a vacuum.
- Vacuum = space.