BOOOOOOOM! highlights the work of Jeff Wall. The above photo is of course an interpretation of the narrator’s room from Ralph Ellison’s “The Invisible Man”.

When I was in junior high or early high school, my mom gave that book to read. I put it down after that scene (which if I remember correctly occurs on page six). “The man’s crazy,” I said. The idea that someone could, or even would, steal that much electricity just because he could, was beyond me. Now that I’m older, it’s one of those books that I need to revisit.