Alphabetarion # Transmit | Lucy Lippard, 1997

Christian Miller, Pennsylvania, 1815

“The lure of the local is not always about home as an expressive place, a place of origin and return. Sometimes it is about the illusion of home, as a memory. If place is defined by memory, but no one who remembers is left to bring these memories to the surface, does a place become a noplace, or only a landscape? What if there are people with memories but no-one to transmit them to? Are their memories invalidated by being unspoken? Are they still valuable to others with a less personal connection?”

Lucy Lippard, The Lure of the Local: Sense of Place in a Multicentred Society, 1997