[carlisle_]

This is fascinating. A nuanced picture is painted in only a few sentences:

> The Apartment in the Mall was never intended to be specifically an ‘art’ piece, it was a home, an escape and an oasis away from a significant task that was consuming my life at the time.

>The 500 portraits, and their corresponding web pages took over five years to finish. It involved over 30,000 hours of computer time making the website and was completely unfunded.

I can’t imagine going through all that and doing all that work for an unfunded project. Combined with the story of the mall apartment, it makes me think this person is unwell, but who am I to judge? I am truly fascinated.

[b3morales]

> it makes me think this person is unwell

It seems that he and you just have dramatically different sets of values and perceptions of the world. A person who intentionally seeks to find the edge cases in their culture might behave like someone with a mental illness. And historically cultures do have a tendency to define such people as "ill". But the similarity is on the surface; the intentions and motivations are completely different.

[jcelerier]

> I can’t imagine [...] doing all that work for an unfunded project. [...] it makes me think this person is unwell.

who really is unwell here ? humans are the only creatures on earth who accept to pay for drinking water.

[carlisle_]

We're also the only creatures that have plumbing, water treatment, and access to water without competition or scarcity (with obvious exception). Not really sure what the point is here.

[fsckboy]

humans are the only creatures on earth who ... have money, except for a bird who learned to exchange it for treats. https://gfycat.com/scholarlythirstyfallowdeer