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— Irving Layton"how seasonably leaf and blossom uncurl and living things arrange their death, while someone from afar off blows birthday candles for the world."
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A town, a landscape are when seen from afar a town and a landscape; but as one gets nearer, there are houses, trees, tiles leaves, grasses, ants, legs of ants and so on to infinity. All this is subsumed under the name of landscape.
— Blaise Pascal
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I see the world as a temporary site-specific installation, structures, infrastructures, the foundation of our sense of belonging and our identity, seen from afar, as a great scale model: the city as an avatar of itself.
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