Word: sinew
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...nuance. Science fiction is an open invitation to moralizing. In a genre that lets you create your own world, who can resist the temptation merely to blow it all up while shaking a head at what fools these mortals be? Not Atwood. What's missing here is the emotional sinew of Cat's Eye, the complex mortifications of Alias Grace. In which case, pass the popcorn...
...humanity at the core of each image. Unlike their close cousin the x-ray, these photographs never violate the boundary between body and environment. The hands and lips are brilliant in their complexity, but never try to be more than a very sophisticated surface, never penetrating to bone and sinew. For Schneider, science illuminates the body’s form, without ever violating its sanctity. That constant sense of reverence is what makes his work art, rather than a photocopier joke gone horribly awry...
...deer on display in the Peabody Museum and some prints Rauschenberg did on deconstructed animal feed bags, Hulsey envisions a thinnish book whose unfolding mix of delicate vellums and sturdy opaque pages in sensual pinks and browns will mimic the layers of a dissected animal. Hide, epidermis, sinew and flesh will be rendered palimpsestic and textual, echoing the blurry, layered nature of the half-remembered words inscribed on them...