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James Rickard on 13 Feb 11I believe this would be an example of Gude's "Layering." It looks like the artist took various existing skin images, then cut them, rearranged and overlapped them to form a hand.
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What would it have been like to see synthetic cubism for the first time? How would I have responded to newspaper literally glued to the surface of Picasso's work? 100 years later, it is commonplace. Appropriation and layering, two postmodern concepts in Gude's 2004 article, are inherent in collage. This postcard layers textures beneath two images of plastic army men. I don't understand what the elements in the background are, but visually, they resembles the desert. Perhaps it is meant to evoke the landscape of the Middle East and being unable to control the movement (evidenced by the eratic arrows) of a loved one in the army. In my own reading of the image, it is about a loved one, not oneself, because the figures appear to be on the telephone. (I could be completely off-base here, since I know nothing of army paraphenalia). I think of my friend who hears from her brother via internet chat that his group is moving to a less protected area. She is powerless, not in control, unable to help him.
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