An umbrella that can be opened up to form a roof over separate
rooms analogous to individual houses in a city.
The closed umbrella is eighteen feet high. By turning a crank
on the pole, a person can open the umbrella: the diameter is about
sixteen feet, the umbrella is made of camouflage fabric -- on
top of the camouflage is a 'Coca Cola' logo, in bloated yellow
letters.
The umbrella functions as a roof. The umbrella is made up of
six triangular sections; under every other triangle, on the ground
beneath it, is a triangular structure of shade-rollers. If the
person who opened the umbrella keeps his /her hand on the crank,
keeping the umbrella open, other people can come in under the
umbrella, stepping inside the triangular floor sections: by pulling
on a ring that hangs down from the umbrella, each person can bring
up shades from the rollers below, making a wedge-shaped room (or
house) around himself /herself.
Each room has three sides. One side is a flag (a field of color:
the flags are of the kind that has no insignia, the flag is like
a landscape or a wall): a Polish flag for one room, an Irish flag
for the second, an Argentine flag for the third. The second side
of the room is white, covered over with a black public symbol,
like the sign for a toilet: the sign has been tampered with: on
one room, the male image has one arm missing -- on the second
room, the female image has her head blown off to the side, on
the third room, the baby floats on a diagonal. The third side
is the same on all three rooms: black fabric with a doorway cut
out in the shape of a penis (and/or bomb) -- rising from the top
of the cut-out are yellow spurts, joining the yellow of the Coca
Cola sign on the umbrella roof above. |