Monday, January 19, 2009

Objects in Situ: Artifact


Fences are obsolete. Privacy is an illusion. Good fences don’t make good neighbors. Big Brother is watching and little wooden slats can’t keep him out. Think of all the famous people and how many times, how many ways you’ve seen them. Their fences aren’t doing a very good job. I have a fence in my backyard. It’s made of widely spaced metal bars. It doesn’t keep anything out, not snakes, or kangaroo rats, or neighbor’s prying eyes. You see can the desert through the fence and the coyotes and the javelina roaming the wash. The fence doesn’t indicate the end of our property, we own several feet of that desert. Fences don’t mark real boundaries.

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