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At a glance the four squares I received appear separated down the middle, drawings on the left, text on the right. If read like a book the words would describe the pictures. Top left: A crown floating in a space. The box next to it read, “When my heart broke and I couldn’t fix it.” No obvious relation. The text about the broken heart reveals a time when there person who wrote this experienced pain. What does a crown have to do with pain? A crown is a symbol of power. Monarchs use it as a sign literally above their heads. Gangs use it in their graffiti to mark their territory. Along with power usually comes pain. Corporations are very powerful and have the potential to inflict pain. Lasn would argue that corporations inflict pain with every commercial they produce since they are manipulating us conform.
Below the picture of the crown is a drawing on a large pill, an unmarked bottle, four little pills, a safety pin, and a spoon with a liquid in it. This box comes across as an add for a drug store. Next to this box is a list of words: Magnet, Pineapple, Toothbrush, Darts, and clover. I have a hard time relating these five things to each other, let alone the whole exercise. Where can you buy these items. If its the right time of year, say around St. Patrick's Day, these five things could be found at a CVS or Walgreens. Coincidentally all the drugs and medicines in the panel over can be bought there too.
Medication is a weird thing. Its something that people often keep to themselves. Yet when watching TV, numerous amounts of medication commercials come on the screen. These ads are produced by giant corporations that own the drugs. Something that is meant to heal is trying to manipulate us into buying their products.
All of these squares can be related back to consumerism, as done above. The only concrete image of production/ consumption is the spoon in the drug scene. The medicine is ready to go, ready to be consumed.