Awakening:   Fashion

How do you use the City?

Gannon Hall : ..we wear the City, it's like Fashion. It's not about being with people. When I walk in the City, it's about being with the architecture."

"Benjamin opened up to philosophical understanding the phenomenon of fashion that is specific to capitalist modernity....Not only is fashion the modern 'measure of time', it embodies the changed relationship between subject and object that results from the "new" nature of commodity production. In fashion, the phantasmagoria of commodities presses closest to the skin." 
        - Susan Buck-Morss, The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Artcades Project  p 97 MIT Press, 1991

Homer Flynn: "I use the city as stimulation...there's a friction and tension that you get from rubbing off of people. It's interesting, and it winds up being part of my work."

more Gannon Hall interview (coming soon)