Ralphie

Spends most time
Dreaming of
Red Ryder air rifle

Considered culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.

“They looked at me as if I had lobsters crawling out of my ears.” – Ralphie Parker

Sterilizer

Standard broadcast
Suburban sketches
Bryant’s poems

A collection of linked short stories can be achieved through various means.

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.” – Philip Pullman

Famous American

Rusty old memorabilia
Souvenirs of perfect doom
Trust that you will

Interesting juxtapositions take center stage.

“What do you do with what you’re given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?” – Donald Fagen

Bit Inore

Reaching
For the future
From the past

Harmony between functions is reconcilable with the individual artistic spirit.

“Art is self-creation, not imitation.” – Walter Gropius

Object Removed

Differential
Concrete stain
Aging

In this encounter, the object transcends its physical characteristics and becomes a lived experience.

“An event is the outcome of the past, so far as the past is relevant to the present. It is also the pregnant mother of the future” – Alfred North Whitehead

Craft Paper Window

Bailey’s
Lunch
Breakfast

The tangible and the familiar are the ground on which experience derives.

“The traces left behind by the things of the past… are like fallen leaves, which the wind of history carries with it.” – Walter Benjamin

Croquet Fancy

In the sticks
Much a tale
Of who you ask

Over this time period individuals put much effort into recreation.

“Croquet is a very old game, widely known and practised in France since the XI century under the name of ‘jeu de mail’. Borrowed by the British around 1300, it was modified over the centuries: the Scots made golf out of it, the Irish turned it into croquet.” – Anthoine Ravez

Coat Rack Elvis

Convex security
Top of the pops
Exit stage

Til we meet again, may God bless you. Adios.

“…the image is one thing and the human being is another…it’s very hard to live up to an image. “ – Elvis Presley

Coca-Cola

Patent medicine
Temperance drink
Hobble-skirt design

The familiar fluted bottle is so curvy it once was called the “Mae West” bottle.

“The perfect liquid wrapper.” – Raymond Loewy

Parking Penalty

Disobey rules
Power to punish
Practical need

Imperfect laws are established to maintain order and promote social order.

“Justice is an artificial virtue, the invention of men, and founded entirely on the interests of society.” – David Hume

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