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nightviewing (v.)
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Nightviewing: the act of reconceiving a place when you transgress its boundaries by night (and through height). Shapes and spaces assume new meaning through the estrangement of transgression. A dark metal ladder becomes a series of concentric circles connected through vertical bars, overlaid on a sky-blue background. The top of a bell morphs into guitar-like bolts.


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"When one goes up there, he leaves behind the mass that carries off and mixes up in itself any identity of authors or spectators. ... His elevation ... puts him at a distance. It transforms the bewitching world by which one was 'possessed' into a text that lies before one's eyes." 
-- Michel de Certeau, "The Practice of Everyday Life"


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City: Boston Metro Area - Spring 2010
Address: 10 Holyoke Place, Cambridge, MA‎