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2001 |
Flesh and Bone
In an earlier era, these mesmerizing vignettes might have been termed "character studies," although that same era might have banned them for their subversive and off-beat fixations. "Character," in Chadwick's writing, usually reveals itself through the filter of simple actions (sneaking into a church, returning to a childhood home) or the filter of objects (an eyelash trapped under a contact lens, an inferior lithograph given as a gift). However, these filters never entirely obscure another character, Chadwick's narrator, who slowly reveals her iconoclastic views on art, politics, sex and the after-effects of 60's California culture. Fully cognizant of Bataille, Beckett, and the French "New Novel," these contemporary fables put "character" in quotation marks while continuing, by a sidelong movement, to unveil it.
Cover photographer Ben E. Watkins lives and works as a professional photographer in Boston, Massachusetts. His photographs have been on the covers of books by Michael Palmer, Thom Gunn, Keith Waldrop,, August Kleinzahler, Norma Cole, W. S. Di Piero and others. He has also collaborated with many of the above on text/photo projects. |
