Kyle Thomas Hemingway: The ephemera edit

“Our language and our forms of communication aren’t stuck in time: New clichés are always creeping into the culture. And the omnipresent emoji is today’s digital analogue to the printers’ cast plates of days gone by. It clicks easily into our most casual writing and, like a time-honored cliché, it conveys shared feeling almost effortlessly. Electronically reproduced emotion: how handy.”

“Hotels thrust their occupants into a state of limbo even as they serve as a bulwark from the outside world. They can be both a welcome refuge and unsettlingly cold; homelike in their decor but cell-like in that what is there is often nailed down, and certainly not yours to keep. If part of a large chain, the rooms appear similar regardless of location, as Swiss photographer Roger Eberhard reveals in his photographic study Standard which showcases the unnerving sameness of Hilton hotel rooms around the world.”