Aslı Mus’s Reviews > Species of Spaces and Other Pieces > Status Update

“Space seems to be either tamer or more inoffensive than time; we're forever meeting people who have watches, very seldom people who have compasses. We always need to know what time it is (who still knows how to deduce it from the position of the sun?) but we never ask ourselves where we are. We think we know: we are at home, at our office, in the Metro, in the street.”

“…change them frequently, and change towns, and change countries; to speak and read any one of four or five languages; to feel at home nowhere, but at ease almost everywhere.”

“Reconsider some of the proposals made by the Surrealists for embellishing the town: The obelisk in the Concorde: round it off and put a steel feather of the right size on the summit The Tour Saint-Jacques: bend it slightly”