That brim shape is almost perfect …

I could see this meaning something more – and even something inclusive – if the environment is part of the design; for a moment I ignored the steep looking sand bank, but if that’s part of the art, that changes the meaning by a lot. That would make much more sense.

I’ve lived places where the landscape changes a lot throughout the year, though, so I sort of ignored the background and took the bench itself in isolation.

Maybe that’s where I fucked up.

Aye. Now give me your gold for it.

If you don’t, I’ll send my legions to kill your youth.

I’d say none of them are better. They’re all equally bad.

Kinda feels like most people today don’t have solid assets. At least in the 1st world west, many people have no hope to own tangible assets, and will rent all their most expensive things – home, vehicle, etc – and now most people’s assets are highly spongey, though they’re convinced otherwise.

It hurts, but almost none of us can hope to own property or anything solid like that. That’s why I refuse to relinquish my land, though literally everyone around me won’t stop hounding me to do it.

I get it. I can barely afford McDonald’s (I treat myself every few months), but I will not give up my land. Whatever. But I gave more than that to help stop genocide.

I didn’t assume malice, but ignorance. And not malicious ignorance, either.

Given this is a public installation, though, I was giving my interpretation.

But what this art says to me, as a wheelchair user, is something completely different because this design is the opposite of inclusive. Is that what is meant?

This design says I should be excluded – taking it as art, this design communicates everyone having conversations and leaving me out, because that back bar will exclude me by design.

If I’m to socialise, I should be on one end or the other, but that middle part means I’ll be artificially excluded by the environment.

Is that what it’s meant to mean?

They couldn’t, though. Because of the space the back of the chair and the radius the wheels requires, the person in the chair would be sitting nearly a foot in front of anyone seated on the bench.

e: look at the amount of space with my custom high-end and narrow profile chair (it’s even more space with the standard-issue chair):

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Your head will be in line with the leftmost right dot if you’re relaxed. I backed my chair against a door, and that’s fuzz or something.

That back bar prevents you from sitting ‘with’ anyone.

as well as practically.

X doubt.

This is worse than nothing, because (as a wheelchair user) there’s like 10 inches of clearance behind the chair (given wheel clearance). That back rail means you can’t back up to get yourself in line with your compatriots,so you’ll be in front of and misaligned with the people on either side, such that they’re literally talking behind your back.

If this design was in earnest, it’s godawful and just shows the designer had no idea what they were doing.

If it’s an art project, then I can appreciate it. If it was meant to be practical, it’s a major fail.

Well, yes, but I meant the form-fitting fashion that was the rage when pockets disappeared from womenswear between like 1910 and the late 1950s. Women still weren’t allowed to wear overtly manly clothes except in certain contexts, so everything from the waist down had to be overtly feminine, since just wearing man pants was too subversive.

Your comment prompted me to look this up and, yeah, people aren’t really brand loyal anymore.

Perhaps it’s an age thing? When I was younger, nearly everything we used was tied tightly to a brand, and I can’t tell you how many jingles I’ll never forget. Now there are a few very strong brands, but otherwise people shop around more and are swayed more by reviews and influencers than because ‘it’s the best part of waking up’.

Proper etiquette requires some degree of suction, which is also kinda sexy, ngl

Ariana Grande net worth: est $250,000,000.

$800,000 is .32% of that.

So, if you’re worth $100,000, that’s a relative $320.

I’d just like to put these impressive numbers into a more relatable context.

I feel like if I had that kind of money, I’d do a bit more, fwiw.

Counterpoint: it’s super manly to just own it and not worry about how you look. Whether you do tiny laps like a cat or big ol’ slurps like a dog, having the confidence to just hydrate yourself and not care who’s watching is kinda sexy, ngl

In hindsight, that was a really weird analogy. In my defense, I was pretty high.

To be fair, it’s really hard to design fashion that’s stylish AND has pockets.

It’s hard enough to design something that looks good on a variably sized and kinetic shape. Now make it look good and have storage.

You’re right. Back in the day, brands could endure. Nowadays, we can see through them, and people aren’t brand-loyal like we used to be.

If corporations want to be people, we can treat them as people. And when they show us their cowardice in the face of fascism, we can ostracise them just like we do that intolerable uncle.

Smithsonian used to be a very prestigious brand of science.

Too bad that’s now been ruined.

I’d really hoped they’d stand up to the fascism, but apparently no. That was too much to ask.

This is beautiful. I love your command of contrast and detail. There’s so much emotion in this.

In that era, though, many couples slept in separate beds and pushed them together for sexy times.

Both sets of my grandparents even slept in separate rooms. When I was very small, my parents had 2 beds in 1 room. That’s how it was often done.

So that doesn’t really help much. If anything, the pushing 2 beds together was media speak for sexy times…