Laura Marsh Photo
Laura Marsh, “A Spotlight On Beauty,” 2010, mixed media
If you could imagine Kafka laughing, this might be the picture that would give him cause. Fashioned in her Newhallville studio by Laura Marsh, here is a wondrous pastiche with elements of a seventeenth century plague doctor and one of Aristophanes’ defiant birds. This apparently comic metamorphosis has been wrapped and threaded into a self-possessed, although bizarre, chic. But the masquerade is a revelation. The piece has the clown’s secret: in the midst of the absurdity, there is pure sorrow.
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