Chicagoans is a first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. This week’s Chicagoan is Jeffrey Roberts, 53, principal architect, New World Design Ltd.
“The project consists of four helium-filled balloon pigs that float just in front of and to the south of the Trump sign, so that you don’t see it as clearly. The pigs relate to Pink Floyd’s Animals album, which is based on the novel Animal Farm, and there are four of them, one for each year that we believe we’re going to have to endure the Trump presidency. The pigs are gold because about six months ago, we in the office read an article in an architecture magazine in which Trump described a gold-crusted interior as ‘comfortable Modernism.’ We were howling.
