What could be more blissful? Warm sun, blue sky, a swimming pool. But yet, there’s no one there. Well, that’s OK. No one uses their pool all the time. On the other hand, in a space designed for relaxation, there’s a certain expectation that we’ll see people relaxing. Why are they absent here?
We all like a bit of privacy. Here, though, privacy appears to have been transformed into obsession or parody. These walls must be at pushing 10 metres high, maybe 30 feet.
The longer we look at the picture, the more strangeness we find. The huge walls don’t appear to be walls at all, but screens, and flimsy ones at that: look at the dents and creases. There’s something more subtly disquieting, though, and to me the likeliest…
