Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Culture.
With the Japanese speed skating and the Russian figure skating teams using ARC as their practice venue for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games someone in administration for the City of
The sudden appearance of this greenery did not begat much surprise as city council and city management have demonstrated a repeated and profound need to engage in behaviours and actions that leave those with common sense shaking their heads and asking “What were they thinking?”
Beholding this greenery leaves one wondering why whoever created this assault on grace and style wants to create in visitors an impression of Abbotsford as a city of clodhoppers. I mean, shake head sadly, “What were they thinking?”
Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that is the reaction of those who give the greenery only a cursory examination.
Invest time contemplating the design and one is rewarded by seeing beyond the artful dissembling guise to appreciate the subtle and subversive commentary on reality’s inevitable ascendancy over ideology.
The discerning mind perceives the resourceful and masterly dexterous tribute to the capitalist reality of geoponics that has grown into a vital component of the British Columbia economy; an imaginative, covert salute to the key economic component that protected BC residents from the worst of the worldwide economic meltdown; an economic component denied on ideological grounds by those who see the world through the lenses of their ideology.
Even if our international visitors fail to appreciate the ingenuity, they should enjoy seeing the greenery and being able to return home and say that BC’s and Abbotsford’s international reputation is deserved - growops are so prevalent in Abbotsford there are even growops in public buildings.
