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Cliché Inversion
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"The shape of the tree is formed with the word "TU CASA ES MI CASA". Poring [sic] out from the leaves is a deranged pig wearing a poor ball helmet and holding a carfe football over the head of a dazed and angry canary who sits in his broken shell on the ground with egg yolk dripping off of his head from the other eggs the pig has cast to the ground." "CLICHE' inversion takes the familiar CLICHE 'MI CASA ES TU CASA' and fups it to now !AY 'TU CASA ES MI CASA'. This statement is the pigs spin in the phrase as he has scaled up a tree and kicked out its inhabitants (A SMALL CANARY) and its unhatched siblings with no regard to the fact that the birds were there first to say nothing of the fact that in general, trees are homes to birds, even squirrels but never pigs. Symbolically, the pig with his football helmet represent the greed of capitalistic developers - specifically the powers that be behind the football stadium currently being proposed for downtown Los Angeles. The helpless canary is both bewilder[ed] and angry at this hostile take over. The canary represents the people who live in the proposed stadium site. The Broken eggs that ( ) the landscape are literally bird embryos. These represent the destruction of dreams, futures and quite possibly the lives of those persons ( ) in 'STADIUM LAND' and the ripple that this variety of displacement ( ) has for the residents children/family." Colors used: Black, Bright Red, Crayola Yellow, Medium Brown, Forest Green, and Bubble gum Pink.
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