Lacan and the gated community

This one needs some explanation. I wanted to create a gated community with the idea that it is structured on visual surveillance - keeping the wrong people out and the keeping the right people in. The giant "silo" combines an agricultural feel with the unnatural-ness of the larger than life concrete walls and metal fencing. Inside the homogeneous homes mark the center of the artificial landscape and are watched over by the surveillance camera/eye in the sky. The camera/eye structure is a 3-D rendering/translation of Lacan's model for how photographs (images) project representations through mediation. The eye is the gaze creating a scopic field which in turn is part of a corresponding scopic field for an object of representation. The model is from a short article he wrote called "What Is A Picture?" I am imagining surveillance as a visual activity that functions both externally and internally, surveillance recordings codify relations between community members while they include/exclude based on visual markers.

I also think the eye is appropriate for Halloween!