Have and Have Not (2006) Crystal Schenk
look i reblogged this because this piece FUCKS but then
then I looked in the notes and y’know.
some people seems confused.
Why a shopping cart with stained glass?
or This would be cool to shop with
or something about religion and NO
NO
THIS. Is about HOMES.
That style stained glass? Those diamonds? They speak to me, and they say “Townhouse”. and FANCY townhouse, at that. They say “City home, old home, a home that is RICH, a shelter from the storm and a safe place for a family”.
But on! a! shopping cart!
That evokes - to me - Homelessness.
The person on the street who had no other choice but to steal the best cart they could from a store’s corral just to have a way to transport the meager belongings that are all they fucking have in this world. And it’s NOT a home or a safe place or a shelter but it’s all you fucking have!
And this piece goes and puts them fucking together! AND NAMES IT.
Yeah this is fucking ART.
It's really interesting because I live in an area where a lot of of the housing stock is old middle/working-class duplexes and triple-deckers, and many of those have stained glass. So this doesn't necessarily read "rich person's house" to me so much as a combination of vernacular middle class and working class architecture with an equally mundane object (namely shopping cart). But also combining the modern with the historical, because you tend to see windows like that – which were the closest thing they had at the time to mass produced, to be clear, hence their presence in households that were not wealthy) -in older houses and apartment buildings 
It's really interesting how people's context impacts the way they interpret artwork!
