a psychic vacuum

Artist Mike Nelson (Creative Time) explores America's dark side in this large-scale installation that transforms the Lower East Side's once vibrant Essex Market into a series of reconstructed rooms and dark passageways. In the last portion of the installation (above) an entire garage-like space is filled with sand. For the complete installation, see Flickr. The references to manifest destiny and JFK were especially thought-provoking.

Now off the Washington, DC to photograph the march and rally...