Continuing to think about ways of connecting the seemingly unrelated: barcodes, receipts, tapestry, papier mache, copyright laws, celebrities and the concept of aspiration.

Two characters in virtual conversation – They are connected because they can be.

Popular culture can embrace and alienate at once: I feel embraced by the sense of reality, while I am alienated by the reality of virtual experience. Virtual experience of culture/world does substitute real experience – watching T.V. substitutes talking to people, reading about nature substitutes living in nature, reading about politics substitutes engaging with local and national community.

Virtual connection continues to substitute real connection.