Mierle Laderman Ukeles' piece The Social Mirror (1983) appeared as part of the grand finale of the first New York City Art Parade. The piece is a 20 cubic yard garbage collection truck, which is still used by the New York Department of Sanitation for special events and festivals, that is clad in hand-tempered glass mirrors with smoke Plexiglas mirror trim. The reflecting truck is a metaphor for the interralationship between "us" whose images get caught in the mirror and "those" who collect our garbage.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Mierle Laderman Ukeles, The Social Mirror (1983)
Mierle Laderman Ukeles' piece The Social Mirror (1983) appeared as part of the grand finale of the first New York City Art Parade. The piece is a 20 cubic yard garbage collection truck, which is still used by the New York Department of Sanitation for special events and festivals, that is clad in hand-tempered glass mirrors with smoke Plexiglas mirror trim. The reflecting truck is a metaphor for the interralationship between "us" whose images get caught in the mirror and "those" who collect our garbage.
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