"I came in making choices about how I deploy aesthetics and imagery strategically. It seems to me that's the only legitimate way of making work."

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It was a total and absolute surprise to find out that what was inside the concentration camps was a sea of skeletons. What is clear to me, therefore, is that while the tragedy of war grinds on, the contemporary aesthetics of the tragedy seem not only confused but, in some way, suspicious.

— Paul Virilio