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I decided to use Hagerty Hall because there’s a courtyard in the center that is outside and inside at the same time…it’s pretty sweet.  I had a lot of classes there my freshman and sophomore years, so I consider it my place on campus.

I was originally going to just put cars and lifts around the courtyard but I thought that would be a little boring.   I thought about what has stuck with me the most since I took classes there and it was learning about the Berlin Wall.  It’s something that isn’t talked about much anymore but I was reminded of it since my car was made in West Germany.

  

I tried to make the three pictures seem as if you are looking at just one, with a focal point of the tree in the center.   The left is supposed to be West Germany, the right is East, and above is the United States.  The factory is on the left to show that West Germany did pretty well after WWII and there are people there just hanging out, enjoying themselves.  The U.S. has a ton of money after the war and dumped it into the non-communist European countries to rebuild but also keep them from going communist.  I decided to represent the U.S. as the Coca-Cola Company because of a movie that I saw about the wall being torn down.  This woman in East Germany was in a hospital in a coma and woke up to a Coke sign outside of her window.  She pretty much freaked out because life had completely changed in her sleep.  I chose a black and white Coke sign too because the U.S. used to be a powerful country but is now on the decline.  It also says “Pure As Sunlight” and a lot of people in Europe would laugh at that.  The right has the Berlin Wall being guarded by soldiers (wall is blocking entrance/exit to the courtyard) but besides that, there isn’t anything else over there.  I thought it was pretty fitting to not have anything besides that since they were deprived of almost everything that Western Europe had.

In terms of materials, I used glass, steel, concrete, and people.  Without an explanation, I’m assuming that most people that see this will say, “huh?”  That’s pretty much what I’m going for.  I never really want people to understand something that I’ve made, this class or otherwise, I’d rather them come up with their own ideas.  All I know is that if I had seen this on my way to German class, I’d probably walk right out of the building.