The Surface, the support


If a person became a wall, what exactly would the wall look like?  Would the wall be part of a building, with windows, holding up a roof, the floors within, a part of a commerce, some sort of merchant activity?  Would the wall be more a decorative barrier, between one side of a park and the other, dividing sidewalk from the garden?  Would it be the wall between walls, an antique remnant of what was formerly a wall before the two walls encased the ruin?  Would the wall simply be the wall built against the train tracks, adorned with the most extravagant of tags and not yet aestheticized to the realm of "cultural artifact?"

El Haouaria, Tunisia

The walled terrace of the falconry at El Haouaria, Tunisia

El Haouaria, Tunisia


A wall between two backyards, the ones built from brick and mortar that separates one property from the other.  A wall built to hold back tides, floods, unsavory elements of nature, and of culture.  A wall of a building, the surface and the support to transitory script, diagrams, tags.  A broken wall giving a view into another garden.  A blank wall, dividing one nondescript public space from another nondescript space.  Of course, the wall that leads to nowhere or anywhere.

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