It's odd you find them oppressing; I'm not sure why myself. There's of course a whole tradition of aphoristic writing from Marcus Aurelius and earlier through the Schlegels, Karl Kraus, etc. It's not meant to be taken literally. With Holzer it talks about the language that produces them; they're self-contained, edgy, verging on truth. But they're also playful in many cases such as the 42nd Street installation. They're words become architecture among other things, and that's fascinating. And on occasion they borrow from advertising, selling nothing but dry ethos. -
Alan - ( URLs/DVDs/CDroms/books/etc. see http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt - revised 7/05 )
