Thursday, October 9, 2014

Warsaw, Poland

How could a palm tree be growing in the center of Warsaw? Totally ageographical. Upon inspection, however, you will discover nothing more than a plastic perpendicular meant to be read as a metaphor: Post-Communist Poland has more in common with western Europe, where palm trees grow on Atlantic shores, than with the fur hats to the east. [2003]

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