The signifier I'm looking at is a string of 1s and 0s arranged in a microscopic array on a piece of aluminum and glass (hard drive platter), transmitted through circuits which reflect the culmination of decades of top-notch design and engineering, to analyze and splatter thousands of pixels of different shades in hue and brightness on top of a light which I can see takes the form of the Charging Bull in NYC. The image appears 3 dimensional even though it is displayed on a 2 dimensional surface, which allows me to create a very visual and accurate mental image of the object, giving a sense of its height, weight, location, and material composition. The dramatic artistic rendition of this familiar object, a bull, further intrigues the viewer to consider what all of these components may signify.
The charging bull artistically signifies the American stock market, which is characterized in several details. Long story short, the statue was placed under the huge Christmas tree of the New York Stock Exchange in response to the recent stock market crash. Initially it was misunderstood and removed, but after extensive media exposure and coverage it came to define the NYSE. It is larger-than life, in a tough and aggressive intimidating stance characteristic of Wall Street traders. Its head is down, but you can sense the ravaging determination in its eyes while the rest of its body is coiled in a muscular tension to make the next leap forward. Regretably, it also reflects the attitudes and maturity levels of the average American tourist, since most of the pictures taken with the statue involve its backside and basketball-sized nads. Its current location bears historic significance, standing right where a colonial era statue of King Henry III was destroyed by some Yankees on July 9th, 1776 in the spirit of independence, which further exposes some heavy patriotic overtones.
I think i'm done, works cited: (https://wallstreetwalks.com/bull-story/)
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