Cash Station* ATM
Chicago place mall in 2009.
CASH STATION ATM in a goldish yellow above three focal lights. The lights are without bulbs and below them is an empty space. A hole which before a atm machine was placed. The wall that 'Cash station ATM' is embedded on appears to be ceramic tile. Starting from the top of the photograph the tile is shinny without impurities. As your eye moves towards the bottom of the photo you notice the age rusted between the tiles that take you to the dirty brick red ground.
The photo made me laugh. I found humor in the fact that this photo was taken down the street in Chicago where people had to have once in time walked by this daily. Also that the bright yellow words 'Cash station atm' is completely misleading for there is no atm but a rusted implication that there once was in fact an atm there. Leaves the viewer questioning 'Where's the ATM?" or more so what the ATM's sole purpose, "where's the money?"
I feel that the artist recognized multiple interpretations from this one photo. I'll list a few that were apparent to me:
atm- a machine that dispenses cash
no atm- no cash?
human vs cash
life? pursuit of happiness.
human belief... the more money the more happy!
no money. no happiness?
A photograph, a map that reads ATM, X marks NOTHING.
Insinuation.
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For me that is just the initial thought. The questioning of why the space still reads "Atm" has me wondering if the business failed. If so, from that chaos? Remove the source of income! Fuck the inscription! -Just another thought.
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