Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Divergent artifice

And so the academic year is done. Welcome to my Robinson Crusoe-esque getaway island for extremely wealthy patrons, built on the premise of a new kind of abstruse visibility unfamiliar in Dubai, a city where everything is a spectacle to be understood on sight. In mitigating the city's supremely visual culture, it points to the potential for images in Dubai's mirror glazed world to resist instant consumption.


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