Though at first, my reaction was to scoff and laugh, to ridicule the $6,000 price tag, to label the subculture as freakish and psychotic, I now see the truth behind it.
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Doug Aitken’s House
When I saw the stills of Aitken’s work, when I read descriptions of it, I thought of a passage from Viktor E. Frankl’s Man’s Search For Meaning, which, for those of you who haven’t read it, recount’s Frankl’s harrowing life in various Nazi Concentration Camps. Despite the shear inhumanity of his surroundings and of his life, Frankl was able to come to this realization:
Nelly Ben Hayoun’s “Other Volcano”
What we are about to embark on is mind-numbing tour of Otherness. If you have to go to the bathroom or get a drink of water, do so now. I’m not stopping this tour bus until we reach our destination.
