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2002 : WHAT IS YOUR QUESTION? ... WHY? [1]

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Brian Eno [5]
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Why do we decorate?

 

Why do all the human cultures that we know of decorate things? Why not just leave them alone? Why put in all that extra, and apparently non-functional, energy?

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