Vinni Alfonso - "Labor Day"

My Name Is Vinni Alfonso and this sculpture is titled "Labor Day Weekend."

 A working class individual relaxes after a long summers-worth of labor. 

The industrial complex has taught this person that if you work hard enough for forty or fifty years; keep your head down, and pay your dues in building up a nation, then you earn the privilege of respite. 

This indoctrinated notion of prosperity has left generations physically and emotionally neglected. Neglected by themselves and neglected by others.

Withering away from indulgence is only an effect of the novelty of success. The truth is there is no blue ribbon; there is no measure of success that should be valued above the proverbial self; No nation so sacred that it takes precedence over the people who make it up.

What is truly valuable can be excavated from this decay and will reveal that inside we still glisten.