Interview with Vik Muniz
By Noelle Bodick
Vik Muniz sitting in front of his work
In a short story, Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges describes a point in space that contains all other points. He calls it—and the short story—the Aleph: “the only place on earth where all places are—seen from every angle, each standing clear, without any confusion or blending.” Before unfolding an account of the endless objects and acts contained by the Aleph, the narrator pauses, lamenting the task of translating “into words the limitless Aleph, which my floundering mind can scarcely encompass.”
