Lardo-ville
Who is Lard?
I am a self-proclaimed absurdist, a banana, and a black hole. I create mythic environments to mirror consumer culture back to the consumer to wrap the terror of aesthetics in an entertainment bow. But I am not the product—I am the producer—the intervention introducer.
I perform capitalism to challenge the way y’all think.
What is Lardo-ville?
Lardo-ville (#forthcoming) is a self-regenerating, absurdist-philosopher’s wet dream—a 300 acre art installation parading around as an off-grid town (location tbd). It also is a trailhead to a much wider collective known as the Oregon Trail—an autonomous network for business owners and independent thinkers.
Vision Statement
Lardo-ville reverse-engineers global capitalism to replace institutional innovation with artistic ingenuity—to put the artist back in charge.
The creative like the capitalist, has the inherent drive to produce, albeit not for capital gain—more curious—for internal sanity. It is therefore a no brainer to honor this natural and raw resource by forging an environment that self sustains.
Bills are stupid.
I’d rather my dwelling work for me—
to provide a safe haven for my fellow bananes and
myself—the OG banana—to flourish.
‘Cause attracting consumers is not my issue.
Submitting to a system that works against me is.
My project will challenge this.
The Lardo-ville Experiment
At Lardo-ville, what might appear as an art destination—where visitors may park their RVs, walk the paths, visit the shops, and pay for the privilege of inhabiting an immersive earthwork—the consumer driven infrastructure—is not what it seems.
Beneath the surface, Lardo-ville operates as a living demonstration: where the experience reveals through active participation how creative community and ecological stewardship can turn the starving-artist model into the thriving-artist model.
This is art as economy, economy as ecology, and ecology as myth. The exchange sustains the frame—and the frame empowers the individual.
(Bonus: the foot traffic spreads the myth.)
The Ethos
The intent of my life’s work has been and will always be to challenge the status quo from within—to show what is possible using all of God’s gifts and not just the ones that seem pertinent to my brand of idealism.
I am not anti-anything. Freedom of expression in whatever form—for everyone—is literally the foundation from which I stand…(or sit).
The Future
I am birthing a polyphonic machine—where technology and ecology collide in the depths of the absurd.
The result: a multiverse that dares to push its cohabitants to the edge of the impossible, to manifest their wildest dreams from the void into fruition.
In my world, creativity is king, but nature is boundless—and together we are unstoppable: living examples of what it means to practice what we preach through radical self-love and unfiltered self-expression.
As Reverend Howard Finster once said:
“I’m trying to get people back to God before the end of the earth’s planet.”
And maybe that’s the point—
to get people back to themselves,
before the end of their own world.
To remember who they were,
who they’ve always been,
and who they still can be…
if they only allowed themselves to breathe.
