The laws of perspective invite us in to another world.
We can choose to run from it.
Or, we can choose to stay and contemplate.
Our reward for staying is a bigger world that disregards where we are in time and place.
In that regard, nothing has changed.
The following excerpt is taken from Wislawa Szymborska’s poem “Tortures”, which is part of Jenny Holzer’s Projections installation (http://www.massmoca.org/projections.php).
Nothing has changed. Except for the course of boundaries,
the line of forests, coasts, deserts and glaciers.
Amid these landscapes traipses the soul,
disappears, comes back, draws nearer, moves away,
alien to itself, elusive, at times certain, at others uncertain of its own existence,
while the body is and is and is
and has no place of its own.
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- Jenny Holzer, Projections (Photo by Jack Kelly)
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- The Ideal City (Italian, c. 1480-85)
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- Lady Gaga, Bad Romance
