Little Toboggans

Sometimes the dead are buried in the air. In plain view. With so much exposure, they decompose. Up there for all to see, they are easier to forget. The more visible, the more accessible, the more easily they are dispensed with. What does a work of art have in common with a corpse? 

{Susan Mitchell, Notes Towards a History of Scaffolding}

D’Agata and Fingal, The Lifespan of a Fact