This is a quote from Bret Easton-Ellis's 'American Psycho' by Patrick Bateman. It's obviously in regards to the superficiality of the sparkly dust on top of the Xanaxed-up Wall Street characters' lives. But if you decontextualise it, it is a good quote to explain the very simple reason that I have used photographic imagery in my walking installation as one of the main communicative aspects.
The concentrated meaning and mission behind the installation can be examined very deeply, and be very absorbing if walking and nature are something that you're into. But if it's not, then it can be really off-putting to hear environmentalists and 'hippies' preach about how much they love being at one with nature, so you probably don't want to be presented with to much complex description or explanations about why walking is so informative. Instead you might just want some nice nature imagery to look at, which can work well itself to entice the hesitant people in - nobody can really deny that imagery of forests isn't effective on them in some way or another, even if people think they don't like the countryside, they cannot subconsciously deny that the feeling of standing before and between a stretch of towering trees is a numb experience.
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