the first duty

"We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men."/George Orwell
Arleen Hodge

Curative and Institutional Care

The Institute is proud to have improved the genetic quality of the human population by sterilization and other selective measures.
Arleen Hodge

The last invocation

AT the last, tenderly, 
From the walls of the powerful, fortress'd house, 
From the clasp of the knitted locks--from the keep of the well-closed
doors, 
Let me be wafted. -Walt Whitman
Arleen Hodge

the institution is an illusion

but The Institute is for real.
Arleen Hodge

Stacked

stacked in little boxes, we live ghostlike unaware of the possibilities outside of the false reality created by the institute.
Arleen Hodge

Designed for you

peer inside the window of the institute where reality is designed just for you.
Arleen Hodge

in lightweight offset

the institute.
buried in lightweight offset.
mysteries, riddles. not for our knowing.
do you belong to one.
Arleen Hodge