What’s it like being a statue in a garden shop? Is it fun or is it like being trapped in Sartre’s No Exit?
What’s it like?
- Post author:Erich Vieth
- Post published:February 17, 2009
- Post category:photography / Whimsy
- Post comments:1 Comment
Erich Vieth
Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.
To be a statue: I imagine that it feels and sounds like a crowded version of "No Exit" where you can speak, but cannot move. The statues loudly beg for escape to a quiet garden where the sound of moving water is an unspeakable luxury; not commerce.
The orchids, on the other hand, are basking. Their voices are irrelevant. Or are they?