NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO POV
Mike Fee
15.11.24 - 19.11.24
“The guide invited the crowd to imagine that they were looking across a desert mountain range on a day that was twinkling bright and clear. They could look at a peak or bird or a cloud, at a stone right in front of them, or even down into the canyon behind them. But among them was this poor earthling, and his head was encased in a steel sphere which he could never take off.
There was only one eye hole through which he could look, and welded to that eyehole were six feet of pipe. He was also strapped to a steel lattice which was bolted to a flatcar on rails, and there was no way he could turn his head or touch the pipe.
All Billy could see was the little dot at the end of the pipe. He didn’t know he was in a flatcar, didn’t even know there was anything peculiar about his situation. The flat car sometimes crept, sometimes went extremely fast, often stopped - went uphill, downhill, around curves, along straightways. Whatever poor Billy saw through the pipe he had no choice but to say to himself, “that’s life”.
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut 1969
Opening event photography courtesy of Mark Owen.
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