You can take a look at the post on this piece from yesterday to get the context...(Mea culpa, Maricopa, Mea culpa.) but in a more general sense, this piece is about oppression. The "tower", imagery I use often, gives the sense of lack of control...an image of the "oppressor,"someone watching over you.
The object is meant to be some sort of evil figure...to be an object that adopts the negative characteristics associated, a "tower of Sauron" of sorts, always watching over...It's representative of the actual watch towers of prison yards as well as an abstracted and grotesque representation of the human figure itself...It harkens back to monolithic structures of the past...a tall obelisk in dedication and reverence to a god...even inspired, in part, by the tower which held the first atomic bomb.
It's all these possibilities in one object, all these references feeding off one another, standing tall over the masses as they look to the sky in worried expectation.
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