Lacan's idea of the gaze - that an image can look back before you've finished looking at it - is exactly what this teal creature does. Its antlered crown spreads wide across the top of the page while the body folds inward through a looping, self-interrupting line, so that even hunched down and crouching, Emmett Sow's beast never once stops watching.
Lacan's idea of the gaze - that an image can look back before you've finished looking at it - is exactly what this teal creature does. Its antlered crown spreads wide across the top of the page while the body folds inward through a looping, self-interrupting line, so that even hunched down and crouching, Emmett Sow's beast never once stops watching.
- Curatorial note, wifärt gallery