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11. EXPIRATION DATE

WASTE OR NOSTALGIA? DO THEY SHAPE THE CITYSCAPE OR DESTROY IT?

 

SPRAYED, CRACKED OPEN, ORPHANED. CHEWING GUM VENDING MACHINES, INSTALLED IN THE POST-WAR PERIOD, RECEDE INTO THE CITYSCAPE AND SEEM TO DISAPPEAR. THE NOSTALGIC STREET FURNITURE NO LONGER ATTRACTS ATTENTION. DO THEY STILL EXIST? YES. WALK THROUGH THE STREETS WITH OPEN EYES AND A CONSCIOUS VIEW, AND YOU EMERGE FROM YOUR SHADOWY EXISTENCE. CHILDHOOD MEMORIES ARE AWAKENED. THE MACHINES SHAPE THE CITYSCAPE, ALTHOUGH THEY OFTEN GO UNNOTICED. THEY ARE EPHEMERAL WORKS OF ART. TAGGED, STICKERED OR OTHERWISE EMBELLISHED.

 

BUT ARE THEY A WASTE OF SPACE OR AESTHETICS IN URBAN SPACE?

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