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...time—to tell a modern cowboy tale. Using a three-screen projection rather than two, Julien explores the contradictory elements of cowboys; their masculinity and eroticism, their freedom to roam yet restrained emotions and their frontier mentality. Cowboys dance randomly from screen to screen, then simply stare, then start swimming nude, then dance again—this cycle continues. The cyclical features of both the cowboys and their backdrop distort the perceptions of freedom and wild exploration that are naturally attached to these “frontiersmen...
...difficult to reconcile the spectacle Novak makes of himself with the quiet manners and thoughtful stare of the off-stage man. What led Novak to his strange style of showmanship was a long search for the largest spectacle he could find. And if he stood at the center of attention...
...loss of function becomes less recognition and greater loss. Soon words and phrases are looped, like mad lines from a postmodern play; then Tourette's-like bursts, frags, some incomprehensible, some vile; then less of that, less of everything, until the mind is concentrated down to a curious stare. Even in death, my mother's face looked worried...
...first photograph shows a tiny girl with a blank, almost intrepid stare ripe with meaning and emotion. The subsequent portraits show Almerisa slowly shedding both the exterior trappings of her homeland and of childhood. In the last photograph, she is coyishly defiant, slouching slightly on the chair with her legs apart and a very knowing expression on her face. She no longer looks the part of a refugee, and she is no longer a child...
After waking from these interminable hours of musing to stare at the screen and see the Bucks play the Magic, I always arrive at the same, overused conclusion—it just isn’t what it used...