Aesthetics have substantial political consequences.
—Cornel West
Harold Warp’s Pioneer Village, from the Center for Land Use Interpretation Land Use Database. A good spot for viewing taxidermy, circus wagons, and American Exceptionalism.
Edward Burtynsky on the landscape of oil
Perhaps fantasy is what you fill up maps with rather than saying that they too contain the unknown.
—Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost
The Lost Horizon Night Market: art installations in rented trucks.
The Museum of the Self, from the Hypothetical Development Agency.
Wreck of the Gratitude. Early 20th Century Antarctica Expedition Photographs.
We never write on a blank page, but always on one that has already been written on.
—Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life
