the Liberty statue's product: Subsidized Time made monumental
NNYC’s harbor’s Liberty Island’s gigantic Lady has the sun for a crown and holds what looks like a huge photo album under one iron arm, and the other arm holds aloft a product. The product is changed each 1 Jan. by brave men with pitons and cranes.
Context
The single purest image of Gentle's revenue politics: the republic's central symbol converted to a rotating billboard whose "product is changed each 1 Jan." — the calendar-auction of 059 made monumental, the torch swapped for whatever this year's sponsor is selling. Liberty herself now advertises, the icon of the nation reduced to its most literal function under Subsidized Time: a mount for a product.