Texts about The Armoured Pot

The Armoured Pot

Imagine: You want to decorate outside your shop and put out a lovely pot plant, but see all your good intentions ridiculed because of the inevitable whims of various vandalists (m/f). It doesn’t have to be like that.
The Armoured Pot is a flowerpot designed for public spaces in high-risk vandalist-zones. The steel-profiles filled with fiber concrete make the construction resistant to most armed attacks from weapons such as maces, metal-pipes, low-calibered guns, firecrackers, darts, javelins, and bicycle chains. Besides in front of shop windows it is obvious to place The Armoured Pot in squares and yards, by busstops and football stadiums or in front of elderly homes or restaurants serving smørrebrød (a traditional Danish variety of open sandwiches). But it is also possible to imagine more contemporary placements of The Armoured Pot such as when important conferences and religious gatherings are being held. At the moment, an ”Ambassadors Model” is under construction which is an extra large Armoured Pot.
Moreover, The Armoured Pot can have surface treatments so it will fit your special style and world-view, and one could easily imagine an Armoured Pot decorated with exotic yin/yang-symbols, a festive swastika or – why not? – one of the many popular portraits of Che Guevara or Chairman Mao. Only the imagination draws a line. And with The Armoured Pot you make an unambigious statement towards vandalists (m/f) that a line has been drawn: Enough is enough!

The Armuored Pot and WIlliam Blake

What is more fragile than plants ? a question poets and mankind ask it self in millennia. In “the sick rose” of William Blake:

O Rose thou art sick.
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night
In the howling storm:

Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.

This poem is obviously about the relationship between a troublemaker (m/w), called “The invisible worm”, and then a lovely Rose, which has been hurt by troublemakers (m / f). Sounds familiar? Yes? It is exactly the same thing happens when potted plants in the public space are destroyed and, if Blake had known about the Armoured Pot existence, he would never have needed to write this poem!