Airports
Airports are key moments where the local is erased in favor of the global. It is the distillation of a space dominated by logos, by machinery, by artifice, by substitution. The artifacts of the airport experience are those of disengagement amid a monumental mechanized landscape. They exist as islands, clearly delineated at their boundaries. Like modern city-states. Here the ancient city wall is replaced by a securitized buffer zone, populated by metal detectors, security cameras, limitations on access and parking. Within their walls a new society flourishes, one built on global brands, global experiences, a population that exists outside of the terra firma surrounding them and instead occupy the terra artifice of telecommunications networks, autopilot controlled aircraft, and scripted experiences.
