"green-hued beasts".

This image, entitled Telenovela, is from Simone Lueck's series, Cuban television sets. I found one of the images on iheartphotograph and then explored some of the series he has posted, but the television sets appeared the most interesting to me. Lueck describes the series with this line: "green-hued beasts jimmy-rigged with ancient computer parts and fantastically adorned like religious altar's", which is such a depressing but true statement. Although these pictures were taken in Cuba, I'm pretty sure that statement has applied for pretty much everyone that owns a television set at one point or another. Lueck is successful in depicting the classic icon of the tv set and its role in the home. Like a new car or diamond ring, showing of your new technology is something that withstands the test of time. Even now when televisions are nothing new, getting a brand new big screen set is still something that's bragged about...
The images in this series are rather dismal eerie, the off-colored glow of the screen providing the only light in the room. For some, it seems that the tv is the only thing in the room, the focus of the person's life, and in others, a person is included in the image, sometimes looking happy and proud to be seated next to their set. Obsession with technology, or taking pride in the little things...im not sure which is more appropriate. Reminds me of Requiem for a Dream...hopefully this story doesn't end the same way.

"let go of the wires..."