O.o.C.Q.o.t.D.: "There's a sheep somewhere, why aren't I warm?" _
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02:43:14 PM, Saturday 1 November 2008

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Idea for an art project: go through an office and take candid pictures of everyone's cubes from a similar angle. Even in the most drab of corporate environments (I am thinking of a stint working for a cable company) cubes are tiny little homes, with pictures of cats or children, or sports posters, or lack thereof, with plants, sometimes even fish, or lego creations, or teapots, or comic strips, or maps of the world, and have things filed away or strewn about, and sticky notes, and whiteboards with diagrams that are never to be erased because they contain important information not held elsewhere, calendars used or unused, org charts, wall length project plans... Of course this would be difficult to do because offices are private spaces, even beyond the privacy of the occupant, there is confidential business data everywhere, phone numbers, stacks of important documents containing financial or otherwise secrets, and so on and so forth, and besides I am not much of a photographer. But I just like the idea, to capture the little flowerings of humanity in places that seem from the outside very dull and uniform and corporate-- and really are I suppose, as much as possible, but only so much is possible. My current office is actually not the best place for it because it's not cubes, it's offices-- more room in private offices for self-expression but you don't see as much walking past. _
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