Artist Don Sak stands proudly before his newest work: "Winds of Change: Plight of the American Farmer." (Photo by Reilly Dixon)
Windfall
- Published: September 12, 2024
Last month, Yellow Springs gained its newest public art installation: a six-by-eight-foot colored pencil illustration of four-legged suburban homes crushing a quintessential red American barn.
It’s “Winds of Change: Plight of the American Farmer,” local resident and artist Don Sak’s most recent work, now hanging on the side of YS Hardware.
“It’s a sad epitaph for the small farmers who can’t make it anymore,” Sak told the News. “Land use is changing … what I’m showing is probably a worst-case scenario. So, take from it what you will. “
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Clever. And I share the artist’s empathy for the small farmer. But I can think of a far worse use of arable land than for residential homes: solar panels.