“ THE HORIZONTAL MONUMENT AS THESIS Our death in spring and the horizontality of the memorial in regards to monuments begs for a pessimism that revokes the self’s right to blissful ignorance. While this horizontal monument perpetuates a deep admiration of the monument itself, it ultimately asks for a conscious view of the self as a thing amongst things, as an object amongst objects. Perhaps a pessimism that is uncomfortably linked to an outward criticism of our desire to immortalize memory, time, existence. Surely it connotes structure within the “memorial” frame, surely one must be able to extend its understanding of form and proportions beyond the body into the structure as removing the idealism of the monument. Why must it all fall under us, we, you if truly our presence is nothing but that, is it so revolting to ask for a consideration that removes you from its center? A monument for monuments sake.”