#in angled brackets I’ve put a description of the image I wanted to create for each block of text

[ponderingcogitations]

<1. Person standing in kitchen kneading dough. Camera is behind them, can see their whole body and the entire kitchen.>We are the ones who live in houses with good bones. The ones who enmesh ourselves into the fabric of our communities and breathe life into our crumbling surroundings.

<2. Photo/photos of billionaires houses, like Kim kardashian, with the bulbous architecture> You are the ones who live in houses with an artificial skeleton made of decomposed granite, covered by a worn and tired linoleum skin stretched over its harsh, lifeless, perfect curves.

<3. Pic of celebrity walking out of a car, heels first, fresh pair of shoes, flashed by paparazzi> You are the ones who will never walk in a pair of shoes long enough to see the crease form. You are the ones who will never wrinkle because you never made anything with your own hands.

<4. Mannequins behind shop window. Their mouths covered with a rectangle which has pixelated colours on it, then text atop which says “please disable your ad block to view this content”>Pristine plastic dolls- walking mannequins, immortal, dressed and pumped with whatever needs to be sold in the moment. Puppets made to speak whatever someone else wants to say.

<5. Pic of train in foreground and private jet up above?> We don’t have all the material possessions you do, or the freedom to experience time as you please.

<6. Person smiling at something in their house, a shrine for a beloved pet maybe. Then contrasted with a celeb giving a home tour saying “and this man made these tiles in Italy with his elbows because the famine took away his hands> But our lives are rich with meaning, while your furniture is only expensive because you say the maker had a troubled past.

<7. Idk. Maybe Taylor Swift doing the ‘bigots are just loser haters lol here’s some merch about it>You commodify our trauma, while we live through it and grow. You are a spectator to our hardships, and you try to insert your influence in our narratives,

<8. Children reaching up to ice cream truck man, focus is on their worn out shoes, or something.>but know this: a pretty patina is not something you can buy, it is one of the few privileges afforded to the lower and middle classes.

<9. Fab celeb party swimming in the ocean, do like a mid shot with camera half in half out the water. See a person floating in one of those pink inflated donuts, but below is all of us looking like rotting ugly zombies pulling chains and rope to keep the cogs turning> You will never truly have what we do. You float on the surface of life while we thrive in its depths.

<10. Us zombies walking past, ambivalent, the wreckage of their submersible adventures> And I caution you to never try to walk in our shoes, for your kind doesn’t last this far beneath the surface of the ocean.