It's A Small World, But Not If

I Think Architecture Is One Of The Predominant Orderings Of Social Space. It Can Construct And Contain Our Experiences. It Defines Our Days And Nights. It Literally Puts Us In Our Place.

Things Change And Work Changes. Right Now I Like The Idea Of Enveloping A Space And Getting Messages Across That Connect To The World In Ways That Seem Familiar But Are Different.

I Think That The Exactitude Of The Photograph Has A Sort Of Compelling Nature Based In Its Power To Duplicate Life. But To Me The Real Power Of Photography Is Based In Death: The Fact That Somehow It Can Enliven That Which Is Not There In A Kind Of Stultifying Frightened Way, Because It Seems To Me That Part Of One's Life Is Made Up Of A Constant Confrontation With One's Own Death.

I Think People Have To Set Up Little Battles. They Have To Demonize People Whom They Disagree With Or Feel Threatened By. But It's The Ideological Framing Of The Debate That Scares Me.

There's A Moment Of Recognition. It's That White-light Kind Of Stuff That Just "works." I Love That. And You Know It When It Happens, Whether It's A Movie, Music, A Building, A Book.