A Chicago architectural firm is drawing inspiration from Pink Floyd in an attempt to mute the omnipresent name of the President-Elect in the Windy City.
In a nod to Floyd’s 1977 “Animals” album, New World Design Ltd. has created renderings of what Trump Tower Chicago might look like if the firm were allowed to float four inflatable pigs from buoys in the Chicago River blocking view of the Trump name on the building facade.
The firm says the 20-foot sign has been a point of contention since it went up in 2014.
“Flying Pigs on Parade — a Chicago River Folly,” as the firm has dubbed its proposal, incorporates a number of symbolisms making it more than just urban camouflage:
- Flying pigs reflecting the unlikelihood of the Trump win; the color gold to represent Trump’s “gaudy style”;
- Four pigs: “one pig for each of the four years the world will need to endure the Trump presidency”;
- A porcine theme in fitting with the President-Elect’s “Miss Piggy” comments; and, not the least of which,
- Pink Floyd’s album that the firm “encourage(s) folly viewers to listen and make their own interpretations.”
I like the “Animals” album with its theme of an oppressed underclass symbolized by sheep revolting against their dog overlords while the 1%ers hover over in the air indifferent to social inequlity like “pigs on the wing.” Unfortunately for Roger Waters who is the genius who helped compose this masterpiece, he won’t be able to exploit the situation as he had hoped on his signature achievement, “Pink Floyd the Wall.” Now that the Democrats have left the Whitehouse to the whims of Donald Trump, Waters has been left out of the fascist dictator fantasy which has been brazenly taken over by the Alt-Right. But I’m sure Waters will lower his expectation of taking center stage in the theater of the absurd by first snivelling up to the reality television host and real estate tycoon-turned President and assume the lowly status of a loyal K-9 who barks at the press like his master.