So I went to the park a while back.
It used to be Geometry Park but now it’s called “Paradise Park” which is strangely suiting when you actually think about it. First off, it’s tucked down an alleyway, nearly impossible to find if you don’t know what you’re looking for, so it sort of is a hidden paradise, a secluded little haven. And then there’s the park itself. It isn’t really a ‘park’ in that there are no trees or playground equipment, nothing really except for some odd geometric shapes with strangely childlike artwork painted on them. Aside from the murals, the shapes look rather like very large building blocks just sort of strewn about and piled together haphazardly.
The most painfully poetic thing about it though is the graffiti which I probably wouldn’t have even noticed really if there hadn’t been parks and rec employees there when I went, talking about how best to go about covering or removing it. When they left, I had a look for myself and sure enough this bizarre hidden and childlike ‘paradise’ had been contaminated by spray painted tags, racial slurs, and crude drawings. It was profoundly saddening that such a strange and beautiful place was ruined without a second thought by careless and/or angry individuals ‘rebelling against the man’.
And really, that’s how most innocent things get ruined, misguided anger and abuse.
This has nothing to do with Volkswagen, Elizabeth. Yeah, I know, I’m getting there. So most people know the basic story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, right? It was paradise made specifically for them but they disobeyed the one rule and got banished from it forever. Well I was thinking about that, and about paradise park, and perfection in general, how it’s unattainable now, and I was like, “well what’s as close to perfect as you can get?” VW. (Okay, we all know not really, but just go with it.)
So play that up. Have a VW car right outside of a breathtakingly gorgeous fenced-in garden (garden of eden reference) and have this line or something similar: “as close to paradise as you can get.”
That’s it. That’s all I got. And I can’t photoshop to save my life so that’s all you get too.
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