So I have been thinking a lot about spectacles. I haven't really been thinking much about what we might typically consider spectacular because, although that is interesting, I find the semi-mundane and ordinary much more worthy of being turned into a spectacle. (This definitely happens when you make something into a piece of art) I prefer to think of things like the school boy crossing himself as he walks down the street, or the beggar on the corner, or the person who absentmindedly drops something and has to turn and pick it up. I find people's interactions quite spectacle-like.
Besides the mundane, the other thing that I find fascinating about spectacles is the difference between what is being watched and the watcher. The concept of a spectacle from the inside of it, flips the whole idea of a spectacle upside-down and inside out. Most people generally prefer to be watchers (at least I know that I do), so what happens when the viewer becomes the viewed?
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