The open air museum

Untill now i’ve been writing about buildings, abandoned areas and space in general. Who knows, maybe a bit of architectural mentality is taken over. During my wandering around i’ve seen many things worthy of attention by watchful eyes. I’m talking about all those objects along the streets, not thought as urban furniture, but that became so after being left there for a long time. I’ve been taking pictures of them from a short time, so i don’t have that many testimonies yet. How many abandoned vehicles have i encountered till now? They are probably all victims of robbery. The most fascinating car is this one, with no doubt. It’s of that kind you can drive without license: althought it’s not so powerfull, i can’t imagine how can people can be free to go around without knowing the street code. The car is small, but it still is a car. It probably was thought for the young, to try to avoid them to use motorbikes and scooters, but i always saw seniors driving it. This car in the picture is really in bad conditions, not because of time, but for criminal activities that reduce it in a slaughter. The coachwork is brand new, clean and shiny, it doesn’t have bruises, signs of rust or smog patina. No pity for the rest: the windows are completely shattered, the rubber frames taken apart, part of one of the doors it has been braken into half and thrown scornfully on the seat, in the middle of the glass fragments. Where the stereo was, there are only two electric wires, a black one and a red one. After the windows it’s for sure the true victim of the assault, althught in a car like this there probably wasn’t a flashy stereo system. The back has become a pondy puddle of rain water, which tells me that it must be here since a while, being the it hasn’t rained in the last days. The puddle welcomes a small coke can, of the ones you get in the machines. This big company knows always how to make itself pubblicity: in the good and in the evil, it’s image is always around us.