proscenium

The results of living inside a proscenium arch of satellites is that the young now accept the public spaces of the earth as role-playing areas.

Right, recording non-proscenium theater plays would be interesting contents.

My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.”“Once we lose our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe which dwarfs -- in time, in space, and in potential -- the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors.”

The painter who was certainly the greatest exponent of the experience of the sublime was Caspar David Friedrich, and when representing it, he almost always put human beings in the picture, confronting them with the natural spectacle as they enjoyed the experience.>The human figure is seen from the back and, by a sort of theatrical mise en scène, if the sublime is the stage, then the man is on the proscenium, inside the show – to us in the audience – but representing someone who is outside the show, so that we are obliged to detach ourselves from the spectacle by looking at it through him, putting ourselves in his place, seeing what he sees, and – as he does – feeling like a negligible element in the great spectacle of nature, but one able to flee in the natural power that could loom large over and destroy us.>I believe that over the centuries the experience of beauty has always been similar to the way we feel – as if seen from the back – when we are in the presence of something we are not a part of and do not wish to become a part of at any cost.