The Death of a House
Posted on | February 15, 2010 | No Comments
By Adrian Perez
The house is alive as long as it is inhabited. It breathes, sees, digests, listens, talks, it ages, and it dies. Upon its death, it must be disposed of or it will slowly decompose.
Like a corpse, it must be buried or it will decay before the public eye; this type of dead space is considered the gangrene of the urban body.
Like a corpse left bare, it will induce a communal necrophobia and attract scavengers, leading to an urgent want for its disappearance, destruction, or redefinition.
The house is human or has been humanized to the point that we grieve its death.
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