Something mysterious and appealing about sky cam photographs of Merkley??? Using simple formal devices of repetition to tie the visual plane together, the cups, thrown, crushed and upright move you around the piece...An added element is the different height planes in this piece...emphasizing the foreshortening....The underbelly is always an interest to those of us who may be outsiders to this world...this dirty, gritty surface is a nice backdrop to bent, broken and angled figures...they have been dropped from the sky like fallen angels to splat right into our local rave...but what of their faces? How do they seem to feel about the drop? Well, they seem slightly unimpressed by the whole situation, posing for America's Next Top Model...but doesn't this add to the complexity of the photograph? It all seems so plausible, but not quite...posed and digitally enhanced, but not over the top...
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