Mr. A + 4S + U = ?

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5 responses to “Mr. A + 4S + U = ?”

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   Kate

   December 4, 2005

   This whole series is really interesting. I can’t wait to see more of them.

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   Night Bird

   December 4, 2005

   Everything that Idyllopus does is amazing. I am sorry I have not been here lately. But I do like this one. And that dress and hair…I swear my mom posed for that.

   Be Well!

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3. 

   Idyllopus

   December 5, 2005

   Night Bird,

   So your mom was a swank blond in spirited curls.

   Some of the styles from the period are amazing–and interesting the choices individuals made in what look to pursue.

   When I blew this one up large I was barely able to make out this was one of those bakelite type box purses and that she was holding also a little black book, which I make red in order for it to stand out. I’ve got a couple of interesting shots from a dress shop there, one which i’m working on now. Blowing up the photo huge I am able to make out that the skirt, which appears to be a normal skirt in the photo, has for its front instead two huge pockets cut straight across the top, forming the two panels of which the front of the skirt is fashioned. Really odd. Looks like it would be pretty uncomfortable. Cut tight around the bottom. In one of Jacques Tati’s films he shows a woman at work and to from the street to the curb she does this fast little bird hop each time as in skirts of that type you can’t move your legs. Years ago I used to have a couple of those old skirts and know the feeling and devising those little hops. The Jacques Tati movie was one contrasting the fascination with the isolationist futuristic, preoccupied with sterility and sleek line, with the reality of the befuddled, muddle human living in sloppy, lively community. A cute film and remains one of my favorites.

   In another photo this same dress shop woman is shown with a pose and hair style duplicating Leslie Caron exactly. I think I recognize the pose from the American in Paris movie though it may instead be Gigi. The face and pose *are* Leslie Caron. A perfect study. I have wondered if this woman was a shopkeeper or employee and how many hours she practiced that pose in front of the mirror and how many times she would make sure to show it off daily. Way out in the middle of the desert near a plutonium reserve.

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4. 

   cruelanimal

   December 5, 2005

   Another great image from you. This one has a vibe of Norman Rockwell furiously painting from inside a gulag. But the woman in the kimono makes the cozy Rockwellian surface subversive. I smell a detention camp on the outskirts of Mayberry.

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5. 

   Idyllopus

   December 6, 2005

   Rockwell. The Normal Rockwell didn’t enter until the painting of the index finger bending back against the sign. The pedagogical hand pulls into Rockwell territory.

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