.in the eternal compartmentalization process, a veneration of virtue is the coping device for an unrelenting irony: that of cherishing, symbolically or on paper, what is destroyed through consumption, destroyed by a lack of moderation, energy exploited to its logical end; the last drop of blood / the last pinch of salt / the last ounce of oil … we shoot it dead as soon as its use-value is eclipsed by the cost of keeping it alive, and because life does not have a real price; it is only as good as its toils and subsequent spoils. Society loves a martyred saint, so it hastens to create them at the hands of its own brutality ../

.let’s say the meaning of martyrship dissolves, as in a break in the lineage of a common perspective – the images and objects created in likeness and homage, to secure their immortality, stripped of aura are liberated, yet lonely; no longer are they pressured to perform the script prescribed to them, but on the other hand, no longer does their status equate to protection and preservation ../

.the field of semiotic study dedicated to creating a ubiquitous language to warn future people of nuclear hazards has neglected an entire faction: those who will, and have always, deciphered the world through scent, sight, and sensation – they likely have little use for the symbolic. They may well indiscriminately chew away at the fixtures of what we’ve created to hold us aloft, destroy each other, scorch the earth and attempt to sponge it all back up ../