FLUID INSCRIPTIONS

THE INSTINCT TO MARK THE PLACE ONE HAS OCCUPIED IN THE WORLD IS NOT PARTICULAR TO HUMANS.

BUT IT IS, LIKE THE VERY ACT OF COLLECTING OBJECTS, ONE OF THE IMPULSES FROM WHICH CULTURE IS BORN AND DEFINED. NONE OF US CAN RESIST ANNOUNCING OUR PRESENCE, NO MATTER HOW TEMPORAL OR HUMBLE OUR DWELLING MIGHT BE; WE WRITE OURSELVES INTO WALLS AS A WAY OF PROTESTING THE RELENTLESSNESS, THE UNCARINGNESS, OF TIME.

-HANYA YANAGIHARA