On 15/10/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: >I see an absolutely stunning portrayal of the utterly bland emptiness of >Suburbia. Not a single human in sight. No sidewalks. Only a single car, >directly across the street, indicates the fact that humans may reside here. > >Huge lawns separate the inhabitants from the street, and therefore from each >other. Looming shadows in the foreground clearly show that this was shot >either from the inside of a dwelling, or perhaps from directly in front of >the house. The viewer reaches out to the world from his lonely abode, only >to find bleakness; nothingness. > >The house across the street (significantly, the one with the car) has a >smudge in the sky above it: it is the moon. It draws our gaze into the >void - is the void of the suburbs equivalent to the void of interstellar >space? Or are we drawn to Nothingness? Is the Nothingness of Suburban >America the void into which we must drop before we become aware of our very >existence? Or is it the "end", in and of itself.
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