Satisfaction In New Jersey
32" x 80", triptych, mixed media.

New Jersey is a heavily populated state. As the tri-state area became inundated with malls and commuters, NJ wooed
big business. Industries like oil refineries, chemical plants and drug manufacturers grew up in places that were surrounded
by what became sprawling communities. The most important thing to realize is that every day we trade our environment to support
our lifestyle through job creation, or the manufacture of the commodities we desire to own. The waste material this generated was
usually buried underground on factory property, or land that was later developed for residential use. When these health hazards are
discovered, they have to, by law , be cleaned up. The companies that created the problem usually threatens bankruptcy or are allowed
to continue their otherwise profitable operations with the clean-up being paid for at the tax-payer's (victim's) expense.
Satisfaction in New Jersey is really about the undercurrent of these things we allowed in order to feel that our daily life was enhanced
by material possessions until one day when a person is sick and a family is left wondering where this disease came from.
Could it be the b(u)y-product of the things that gives us a higher lifestyle?
The good life is a given in the constant pitch espoused by the State, the Chamber of Commerce or real estate agents,
but when this pitch is exaggerated, one has a very difficult time proving it.
© sol robbins

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