eh A man walks into a restaurant he has never been to before. A second man walks up to him that he has never seen before. The second man leads the first down a corridor he has never walked through before. A chair is offered that he has never sat in before. A menu is...
nein The psychology of a tier. Hitler met with Willy Hof and then with Fritz Todt, and the Autobahn changed from a capitalist bourgeois waste of money to a National Socialist machine,’Volksgemeinschaft’ was the word. Existing precursors, including experimental...
Line marker works develop specific meanings associated with place from the colloquial to the global. Further, place has been attached to both fact (the civic regulations we live with) and fiction (the storytelling that enriches our lives). The surface language of...
Eleven Statements about Line Markers: Line markers are cultural compass cards, worldly in scope. Line markers are graffiti’s distant cousin, a tag in time, if not actually in creative step. Line markers are compliance and familiarity tenuously balanced by vigilance...
SECTION ELEVEN: MARKINGS AND DELINEATIONS SON: EVEN KINGS LIE A man stands in the absence of a horizon, landscape details, or other clues about the spatial environment. Solely his body achieves a sense of space. His nose, dropped towards his feet, creates the mental...
When in the 1960’s, the term ‘topophilia’ was coined (’62 by Yi Fu-Tuan), the U.S.A. Highway Act was only 5 years old and its 41,000-mile interstate plan was just beginning. An enigmatic term, topophilia belonged to the disciplines of geography, sociology and...