.... architecture indicates In "Fair Town" nothing but its own horizon. It elaborates its encounter-forms as a free game, in which there can be no outside that it could stand out against, or that could counterbalance it as something Other.
The various architectural arrangements in the "Fair Town" series are always just one configuration of space and time, volume and structure among other possible ones. The white volume that runs through the series does not simply open on to an interior that is never really resolved as an inside space and often negotiates its borders. It is also bound into an interplay with other temporary features and containers, from the pavilion frame to the wastepaper bin.
Perhaps more clearly than elsewhere in the series, this arrangement remains in "Fair town 5" very close to the image. The pictorial space is expressly organized only as a surface in which the foliage screen forms a background to the bamboo and palm outlines and repeats both of them in terms of surface quality and motifs. And so here the space stretching between them turns out to be a mere possibility created by shifting of elements. Any fixed horizon for this space is blocked by the foliage, then refused again in the horizontal arrangement of the palm silhouettes....
