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...Romesh Ratnesar. Reported by Karen Tumulty and Michael Weisskopf/Washington and Broward Liston/Palm Beach...
Early education and speech therapy pulled me out of the autistic world. Like many autistics, I think in pictures. My artistic abilities became evident when I was in first and second grade, and they were encouraged. I had a good eye for color and painted watercolors of the beach...
...follows Aitkenhead and her hubby Paul as they wander through America, Southeast Asia, South Africa and the Netherlands looking for a way to recapture their early transcendent experiences on Ecstasy. If the words "drugs" and "travel guide" trigger sudden flashbacks of Alex Garland's backpack bible The Beach, don't get excited?this adventure pales in comparison. Not only does Aitkenhead attempt the same jaded been-there, done-that tone as the Gen X bestseller, she even names one of her chapters after Garland's novel and sets a large chunk of her story in the same Gulf of Thailand...
...Land is a nice enough lark. It might not have the rich depth of Charles Nicholl's Borderlines, the hapless humor of William Sutcliffe's Are You Experienced, or the sublime poetry of Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg in their Yage Letters. Still, if you're totally spent on a beach this summer yearning to feel that ritual spirit yet again, The Promised Land won't take you all the way there, but it's not a bad trip...
...thesis show at the Gallery at Green Street, revolves around ideas of masculine beauty. Sheng places a stereotypically handsome man in different places around the country, giving the work a road trip-like feel. The tall, blonde and blue-eyed man reclines by a waterfall, walks joyously along the beach and reclines in hotel bedrooms. The prints, in 35 millimeter format and printed in large scale, hearken to large ad campaigns such as Calvin Klein or Abercrombie and Fitch. The Adonis figure is prominent, and the work betrays an intimacy between the model, the photographer and the camera...