Each of us ourselves will sometime hear more or less depending on our moods and our current and passing preoccupations. The telephone to provide a call for help, the SOS from all the violence. Like your blog though. Perhaps that depends on when the picture was taken. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. The comments are always interesting on your blog, Sam. Sandy Skoglund. Exhibition of the new installation and photograph, along with previous work. Do you need to find out what the artist says about their work/s first before experiencing it? Music, Mus... by Viv Albertine, 4 of 5 stars to The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other S... by Susanna Clarke, 3 of 5 stars to Kingdoms of Elfin by Sylvia Townsend Warner, On page 266 of 720 of A Little Life, by Hanya Yanagihara, 3 of 5 stars to Through Innocent Eyes by Cynthia A. Sandor, 5 of 5 stars to The Collected Stories by Grace Paley, 3 of 5 stars to Anna Akhmatova by Anna Akhmatova, 4 of 5 stars to Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court by Suzanne G. Cusick. Could it be an advert for paracetemol? Oh – forgot to say – I made the same assumption about the artist as you, that Sandy was a he. ( Log Out /  The article presents a brief biography about this American artist and sixteen of her works. Or the fictional violence of comics and books, computer games and action-movies seeped into his unconscious? The gold makes me think of the sun and the red imagery of Japan so perhaps then the Rising Sun…I am assuming the prone man is American or at least Western then if I am considering his enemy to be from the East…he looks Caucasian but it is not that clear. The photographs of this artist provoke a magical attraction in me. Learn how your comment data is processed. And also makes me think about how much it’s all in our head– paranoia is from inside, not out–how we project our own reality. Clearly it would have been a difference piece had I got my facts correct though!]. Her works are characterized by an overwhelming amount of one object and either bright, contrasting colors or a monochromatic color scheme. Or a warning against drinking too much the night before – cos this is what it’ll feel like the morning after? *. Are the violent images arranged against him real or in fact part of his dream, his night-mare? All of this artillery though is aimed toward the sleeping man. ( Log Out /  Your observation about my comment about the unattended rockets – I was clearly seeing them then as stationary whereas as you note they could be in motion on their way to deliver their fatal payload to the cornered man…. Art I have never been good at – never, NEVER been able to ‘interpret’ it, only ever been able to be impressed by it, or not. Your email address will not be published. You may hear similar words to what I hear but you may well hear something else entirely. Some pictures have more to say than others…some have over-much to say – others short, sweet, succinct. Thanks for your response and for liking my blog. ( Log Out /  A Good Woman - every saint has a past, every sinner has a future, Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement - New London Exhibition. So in other words, they were in the war, and laying their head down, and putting their hands over their head, but regardless, the war still raged around them. In May, 2008, he co-founded the website to create one big city that celebrates creative ideas. She went on to graduate school at the University of Iowa in 1969 where she studied filmmaking, intaglio printmaking, and multimedia art, receiving her M.A. They get it, it would appear, but I do not. A picture speaks a thousand words it is often said. Even if we don’t hear all of them. 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