Big Ones, 1998
by Sonja van Kerkhoff.
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Two larger than life-size transluscent photo-images of children.
Installation in the Other Gallery, Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada.
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Their gestures are ambiguous.
One stands on one leg holding
his head in his arm and
the other is bent over,
feet wide apart,
about to roll a rock
over in the sand.
The title refers not just to size,
but also to telling 'big ones' -stories.
We can't tell if the 'acts' are 'natural'
or 'artifical', 'original' or 'copied',
or whether they are 'real' or 'fictive'
(lies).
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Extensions of this work and theme.
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