Heads
‘I haven’t finished with heads. A person’s whole life passes through his head.’
Elisabeth Frink 1)
Heads as we know them take many forms. By looking at representations of the head we are able to find difference, perhaps newness; but what binds us to an image of the head, and to the works of this exhibition, is a commonality of perception. The marker here is empathy. We as viewers empathize the form of the head, the particularity of nose, brow and eye; the sitter looks out, or elsewhere - we internalise this gaze - and...
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