Nicole Pasulka interviewed Kent Rogowski about his Bears series:
The seams of the bear now look like scars, and some bears lose their limbs and other appendages depending on how they were constructed. When you look at the inside-out bears they appear to have a history or a past. They no longer offer comfort but instead seem to want our empathy.
Robert Krulwich connects the project to how we think about international norms:
[In many Japanese cities] buildings have numbers, but they are based on when the building was built. The first building constructed in 1950 is called "1," the next one from 1953 is "2," and they don't have to be next to each other …which is pretty much the opposite of how we do it. I had no idea you could organize a city this way, but, of course you can. And once you see that a totally different logic works, you think, hmm, "What I know is not how things must be. What I know is often just a routine." So much of what we call knowledge is a habit of seeing.
(Image courtesy of Rogowski)
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