Was this a protest over poor ergonomics and uncomfortable seating? A statement about seat diversity or the lack thereof? Are these physical chairs “stand-ins” for department chairs in academia?? To answer these and other questions, I will refer you to the artist responsible for this 2024 Paris installation called “AVALANCHE,” Tadashi Kawamata.“Liberty Leading the People” (1830) by Eugene Delacroix commemorates the July Revolution of 1830 that toppled King Charles X.The chairs! The chairs! They’re EVERYWHERE!!”
Much of my career in radiology has been spent studying, with great fascination, the internal mechanisms of the human body. This blog is an effort to expand that view to the outside world and also to map my own experiences engaging with it.
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