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The town councillors' question, whether real art could be used to erect a meaningful identity decor in public space, was parried by the observation that although there was a decor, there was no trace of an identity, at least not in the town centre. The public space within which the local-government unity of Oosterhout functions is that of the world market/world media brought in by its modern local government, to give the town a place in this complex modern world we live in. But as soon as local identities are linked to the world, it turns out that they no longer exist, and possibly never did. Oosterhout does not feature on any globe. With unerring instinct, Perry discovered the strength of Oosterhout's identity, respectively the local authorities' taboo, and found it a symbol: an insect threatened with extinction, for which we are to blame.
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