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Out Of Joint
Reviewed by: Angus Wolfe Murray
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Here we go again into the land you wish to forget. Dysfunctional marriage. An angry man, a fluttery expectant woman.
He has driven himself insane. Or is that the way of it? Rage on tap?
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She waits in the bedroom, hearing his row through the wall. He tries on a nose photograph and looks at himself in the bathroom mirror. Is he attempting to impress her, or affect a disguise?
Animation escapes the confines of tradition until the shape of a man is the contour of a line. There is something basic, acute and very clever about this fractuous statement on the illusion of marital harmony.
Drawings like these confound Darwin's theory of evolution.
Reviewed on: 12 Feb 2004Share this with others on...