Public gathering and viewing of events, from punishments and hangings in the past, to music and dance today, link the Tolbooth's historical and its new function.
This "peepshow" contains images based on a ballet "Le Jeune Homme et La Morte", and the viewer becomes a witness of a danse macabre.
The idea of what we are prepared to watch and how it affects us interests me. The motives behind wanting to view, say, the execution of Timothy McVeigh are complex - is it edifying or in some way titillating?