Kafka’s Palindrome (Thicket No. 3) incorporates a fragment of text taken from the diaries of author Franz Kafka (1883–1924). Kafka’s stories often convey the anxiety of modern life through characters whose situations at first seem normal, then grow increasingly strange and psychologically complex. One must move all the way around Roni Horn’s sculpture to read the entire perplexing quotation: “It would be enough to consider the spot where I am as some other spot.” By asking viewers to walk while they read, the sculpture alters the usual experience of reading. At the same time, reading while looking at abstract sculpture disrupts what is typical of that encounter. Horn has commented that these effects, which encourage active contemplation on the part of the viewer, are a critique of the passivity of other forms of contemporary visual experience and entertainment.