Back to The Futurama
For his piece “Back to Futurama,” artist Jeremy Dean gutted a gas-guzzling 8 mile-per-gallon HUMMER H2 and revamped it into a silver chrome, LED light-ridden, mega audio system decked “CEO Stagecoach” — a horse-drawn testament to the collapse of the auto-industry.
“Taking the logic of the past and putting it in the context of our current economic and environmental disaster, I am making my own satirical prediction of the future- Unless we come up with alternative fuel sources and rethink our reliance on a hyper inflated consumption based economy; we may be left with no other options than to hook our cars up to a horse.
As a symbol of this I am going to take either a Cadillac Escalade or HUMMER H2, which have become a monument to America’s consumption, greed and arrogance, and convert it to a horse cart. The cart will maintain all its former glitz and glamour: chrome, rims, GPS, working sound system DVD player, and TV screens, but will be pulled by a horse.” — Jeremy Dean
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