Grain Elevator - by Robin Winter
This is a piece of real life sculpture made from wood canvas and found material. It represents and exhibits the feels and smells of life in the american heart land. Beyond that it shows how the icon of the American heartland and pinnicale of industrialization, the grain elevator, has now become America's first real site of ruin.
As the Egyiptians have the pyramids and the Europeans have the castles. The new country of America has its grain elevators.
At one time these enormous tubes were filled with grain that fed a nation; now lay dormant and coverd in grafitti. The grain elevator not only makes a perfect canvas for the grafitti artist but demonsrtates the impact that out-sourcing and globalization has had on a once great nation.
- Robin Winter
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You can see more by Robin Winter on his Flickr stream here.
In the _blacklibrary
The Grain Elevator is the first content to come to the website from the _blacklibrary. The artist has generously donated a replica of the original piece, constructed entirely from Second Life primitives, to the _blacklibrary's gallery.