Friday, October 29, 2004

anarchic openness of the sky

We are obsessed with building labyrinths, where before there was open plain and sky. To draw ever more complex patterns on the blank sheet. We cannot abide openness…that first unscribbled serenity…that anarchic openness of the sky."
-Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

...quoted in Public Art: The New Cartographers at NY ARTS.