Wan-Sze: | How would you label this? |
Will: | Isn't the purpose of this art to go beyond labels? |
Kasim: | Come on! Don't be so naive. Labels are actually fascinating. They're a shorthand for in-depth thinking. To some degree, they are necessary. They reduce our cognitive load, giving us more space to look for things unexpected. |
Will: | Yet they often blind us! Are we not often slaves to our own labels? |
Wan-Sze: | Well, I would label this poem and image 'trash.' |
Nadia: | (nodding) Yeah. Let's move on . . . |