-FROM THE THIRTY-FIFTH FLOORFog as a Mechanism of Estrangement
May 19, 2026
“It’s up to you to rescue the grandma from the kitchen into a different mode of thinking by estranging that mode. Similar to how babel rescued the sunset by making it strange through displacement.”
It’s not the fault of -the view-, it’s that you need to reconsider it.
“And so, what we call art exists in order to give back the sensation of life; in order to make us feel things, in order to make the stone stoney.
The goal of art is to create the sensation of seeing and not merely recognising things. The device of art is the estrangement of things and the complication of the form, which increase the duration and complexity of perception.
Is it the very duration an complexity of perception
THE VAPOR ACTS A PHYSICAL BARRIER BETWEEN YOU AND WHAT YOU SEE, AND WE OFTEN-TIME ACCEPT WHAT ‘IS’ WHEN IT IS IN OUR FACE
Estranging oneself from an idea that allows one to
can see it differently
Estrangement is not the act of putting a barrier between yourself
and something else to create distance. The barrier that fog
Estrangement does not mean distance, its actually about creating a closeness through gauze; blocking that which has been normalised, socialsied, overexposed, and seeing it through an assigned catalyst as if you were experiencing it for the first time. It’s a separation from the know through a staged encounter that allows for a bewildering curiosity.
It’s about staging an encounter that
IT IS NOT MERELY SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM, IT IS
Estrange it.
Imbued it with strangeness
Make it strange for yourself
Fog is an actual mechanism of estrangement because it places a barrier between