Smash Group of Akron, Ohio (1960). AI-Generated.
Picasso lived to 104, Brancusi to 101 and Georgia O’Keefe didn’t give up her creative ghost until three days after her 100th birthday. They’re gone, but if you can find some equivalently antique remnant - in a tender care facility in the Hamptons - try an experiment. Whisper just three words directly into their hard to hear ears, and watch their gaze mist over. “Ah, yes,” might sigh the dodderer who once welded steel plates the size of locomotives. “Oh, them,” might sigh the biddy who had sex with a giraffe in the garden of the Museum of Modern Art until she was arrested for public obscenity and the traumatized camelopard was sent to the zoo. Who do these wizened revolutionaries remember with a fondness verging on reverence? What were the words you’d whispered? The Smash Group.
