I believe I'm a little bit late with these transformations, or at least, late in thinKING about them. Transformers have been around for ages. Kids had the "transformer" toys decades ago. Never really paid any attention to what it means.
Change has been all around since day one. Every-
thing changes, even things that seem they're un-
changeable. Well, at least the outer changes. Though I'm quite sure that the recipe for coke has changed also. Hard to tell if it still tastes like the very original drink did. I remember, when I was driving the tank
trucks, hauling corn syrup. A lot of it went to Coca Cola. And that's what they used for sweetener. But for certain Jewish Holidays, for the Kosher Cokes, we brought them sugar syrup. The cans had a tiny little, almost invisible, "k" on them somewhere, so that the buyers would know that this was the kosher drink. Blessed by the Rabbi during production. I'm sure that for a discerning palate, the taste was noticeable.
Two pretty old coke bottles that I'd found in the desert. The one on the right I'd say is older. Not fluted, a little bit flat on one side. Much thicker glass. Some El Paso bottling company... The glass bluer than the bottled cokes I remember from childhood. But even those small glass bottles of coke are almost gone. Mostly it's plastic or cans... The relief I made, inside the red plastic heart-shaped candy box... Even the decorations on the cans change. Pretty fast, too. This one, with the sun-glasses didn't last too long. Some special occasion. So I used it to make this image of a young Indian Seer from way back, from the old days... He told his People that a strange kind of peoples was coming in the not so distant future bearing many strange, beautiful, and some dangerous gifts. Unimaginable things. He probably saw these drinks from that distance......