I have an unnatural fear of clothes hangers in a state of repose (goes back to an unhappy incident when I was a kid and hooked my foot on a hanger that was lying on the floor when I was pulling off a pair of jeans -- I pulled the hook end of the hanger up my leg and cut a deep and narrow and painful gash).But I thought these were strangely beautiful.
Shot at the Oriental Institute -- a brilliant little museum on the University of Chicago campus. They call themselves the "best kept secret in Chicago". I suspect if they would just change their name (it's so pre-Said) they would get more traffic.
But then you'd lose all that great history...
I'm pretty sure Said was the guy who shifted the orientation of the term with his book Orientalism -- by pointing out how we in the West objectify and make exotic "the Orient" -- makes us feel better about ourselves after we colonize whole countries, I guess.
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