departure

when we speak of remembrance in culture, we speak in manners implicating its permanence. the furniture in the faux IKEA living room of culture. everybody sees it, everyone uses it for a time, it is taken for granted. nobody asks who built it, nobody asks why it is the shape that it is. the rituals, the statues. the playlists, the holiday parades. all so obvious. when they turn invisible, as the event is over, we forget that they were once choices by people in specific rooms, in specific years, ... read more