VSL’s pick this morning was this remarkable collection of 100 photographs by Michael Wolf — the interiors of 100 apartments in Hong Kong, each 100 square feet in size. Most of the residents are older individuals, but there are a number of couples, a few kids here and there, several middle-aged women with their elderly mothers. How one person can live in this tiny space is hard to fathom, and then you run into this one, which has been divided into two compartments.

The young adults leave me wondering if they’ll grow old in this same cubicle. Some of the rooms look like death scenes in the making, the contents sure to collapse on the tenants. There’s some noble poverty and some squalor, all in this same building, in these identical spaces, but what simply does not exist anywhere is a window.