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...City of Salt,” their delightful new exhibition at the Pepper Gallery in Boston, viewers are transported to a mystical part of the salt deserts of the middle east; the “city of salt” was constructed by a king who desired a secluded haven. In the center of the gallery’s floor rests buildings constructed of white clay and covered in salt; their stupa-like shapes suggest mosques and holy buildings that reach towards the sky. In the center is the crown jewel of the structures, a four-stepped platform with...
...centerpiece of the show is the 8 inch by 42.75 inch print “Untitled (City of Salt),” the two dimensional answer to the central installation on the floor. Various upward pointing buildings with varying degrees of height and intricacy rise seemingly out of nowhere; but in the far distance we see other “miniature cities”—worlds unto themselves that we can never access—and in the foreground, almost unnoticeable at first glance, are two figures, one at left playing a small pipe and the other...
This symbolism-rich world echoes of numerous historical and literary allusions, and itself is almost reminiscent of the South American magic realism style of prose. We revel in these whimsical fantasies, and it is almost disappointing that the City of Salt and its characters are merely the figments of Kahn and Selesnick’s minds. Yet the pictures are true enough that their melody might seduce us into believing such a prank—and never again know what is fact and what is fiction, what is logic and what is lunacy...
...Sharon was taking Arafat hostage and grinding the salt of humiliation into the sour wounds, he was taking us into a new horrific level of madness. Another Palestinian girl blew herself up in Jerusalem last week, killing two Israelis and wounding more. She will not be the last...
...this for me personally--and there has been good, because I don't think I've ever been more integrated than I am now--it is totally meaningless to the people who are still hurting because of me, directly or indirectly. Whatever benefit comes to me is almost salt in their wounds, in a sense...