A Metaphor for the End of Just About Everything

At one level this is a document of the final hours of Longs Book Store a victim to both technological change as books are ordered online or migrate to digital forms and the pressures of real estate development as a publicprivate partnership devours the blocks directly across from the Ohio State campus nominally in the interest of establishing a new Arts Corridor But the video is also a more general reflection on mortality and ephemerality resonating with the billboard image of Félix GonzálezTorres Untitled for Parkett which was also destroyed with the building