From Simulation and Its Discontents by Sherry Turkle:
The master architect Louis I. Kahn once famously asked: ‘What does a brick want?’ It was the right question to open a discussion on the built environment. Here, I borrow the spirit of this question and ask, ‘What does simulation want?’ On one level, the answer to this second question is simple: simulations want, even demand, immersion.
This is a photo-realistic painting, not a photograph. You could say the simulation is nearly (completely?) identical. What does this say about human creative potential, the precision with which we transfer imagery from the environment into our mind’s eye, and back out into the corporeal world? I think Roland Barthes might like this. More of Monk’s work below. The Telegraph exhibit here.
