Vistas

This is the most difficult thing for the walker. The look to the vista is clogged by the thick and sticky, appropriating gaze of the powerful and smeared with the sentimental indulgence of their subaltern supporters. Chocolate boxes, calendars, posters in dentists’ waiting rooms, Sunday painting – it is a heroic act of will on the part of anyone to actually, physically decide to look rather than simply to see what they already ‘know’ is there.