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Brooch: Power Down – a “construct” brooch that depicts the fractured system.
Materials: Bronze, silver, acrylics, and micarta

“Power Down”
When the lights go out so does everything else powered by electricity. A month after the power goes down your refrigerator has passed through the science experiment phase and has entered the demonic wormhole arena.

Think of everything that we depend on for our sense of civilization and you’ll soon realize that a significant proportion of that “civilization” is powered by electricity. New Orleanians who returned to the city from their evacuation locations came back with generators if they could. I loaned the two I had to friends who were beginning their restoration efforts. One of them was still using it 5 months later. It drove his power tools, recharged his cell phone, made his coffee and cooked his dinner.

The initial damage to the power grid in New Orleans from Katrina’s winds was extensive. But when the floodwalls broke the damage to the electrical systems of the city escalated. The flooding took out the sub-stations. The transformer complexes behind the cyclone fences keep us out, but aren’t very good at keeping flood waters at bay.

Our energy provider, Entergy Corporation, filed for bankruptcy protection on September 23. They knew then that the damage to the system was going to financially overwhelm their ability to cope. I’m surprised that there’s enough juice running through the lines to power the computer I’m writing this piece on!

On every foray into the damaged and flooded areas of the city I have found and photographed downed and shattered electrical poles, transformer sub-stations and the connections between them and the houses that depended on the supply of their power.

The power supply is still fragile. We have numerous brown outs and out ‘n’ outs. We had to get power supply backups for our studio computers in fear that the power surges which accompany a return of supply would fry our machines.

I found all of the parts you see in this panel on the streets of New Orleans and along the beaches of the Gulf Coast. The light bulbs are new!

Never take the power supply for granted. It comes at a huge cost, on a lot of levels, to all of us. Where does your power come from?

although this is the only photographic evidence of it, really. i took a bit of a break from flickr (in case you didn't notice), and just a break in general, to recharge some very worn mental batteries. it did me good, most definitely.

enjoy your friday, and your weekend....hell, whatevs, just enjoy!

FUTAB!!!

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