Good Night Factory, 2014
scratchboard
© copyright Mike Kraus
The
Acropolis or Coliseum of the Industrial Age.
Ruins commonly found throughout the Rust Belt. The upheaval that occurred as families left
the manual labor of their farms for the power-driven manufacturing of
monolithic corporations. A complicated
artificial bond that brought gains in efficiency, medicine, and life expectancy
as well as ecological damage, dehumanization, and greater inequality. A dysfunctional relationship that scars
entire regions as production is automated or leaves for poverty-stricken districts
desperate for menial wages. What happens
to people when we are no longer needed?
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