ELISTE (1991)
I'm used to being pigeonholed by my clients, who often hire me to paint only certain kinds of subjects. So I admit I was thrown when I started reading Paula Volsky's novel ILLUSION. 1/5
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A pretty young woman with disheveled white hair and tattered skirts emerges through a gate, delicately wrought in bronze and patterned with butterfly wings. One half hangs askew, falling off its hinges. On the wall next to Eliste, Posters with calls for revolution are pasted on plaster partially covering the uneven stones. Red diamonds are spray painted there. Opposite the doorway graffiti reading "DOWN WITH" cuts off at the right panel edge. A body lays face down in the snow covered street. A view through an alley reveals a raucous crowd gathered at an iron fence. Beyond, a pair of robed figures, executioners, stand on either side of stairs leading up to platform where the silhouette of a strange device rises, dark and menacing against the hazy gray city background. The shape of it suggests a figure, malevolent sentience, with white dotted eyes and the peak and fringe of a headdress suggesting the shape of a head while buttresses at each side could be arms. In the immediate foreground left, a bald man cradles a large chrome covered device, a sci-fi element that contrasts the urban squalor.
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