| The new Pandora's
box I have always loved the horror house in those cheap traveling circuses. The fear, the surprise, the play with gravity, were to me, a real pleasure of controlled chaos. The horror house and the pinball machine cast the same spell. Television holds all of the same qualities. For me, the only difference resides not in the chaos but in the control of it. Television acts according to the ‘Butterfly’ effect. A soap created in New Orleans can, the next day, change the entire life of a Montana household. Horror houses and pinball machines are taken lightly. When we walk into one of those horror house trailers, we know that the exit is just ahead. When we play a pinball machine, we know that gravity is against us. With television however, there is no exit and no weight. We are all suspended in the fixed dream of somewhere else. |