Frankly, I just don't have the energy to point out everything that's
misconstrued or just plain wrong with the moral message behind
"OFF-ROADING: The Reinvention of the American Gas-Guzzler," an
installation at the School of Visual Arts.
Maybe a little energy. The truck isn't a statement in and of itself, it
was an answer to a question, one of tremendous utility, a design
philosophy refined over a century until it becomes a clean, flawless
object. It's like objecting in some way to the egregious use of
porcelain in a toilet. Being large isn't the truck's raison d'être;
fulfilling a need is. And it does its job perfectly.
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