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Comment by Resident Curator on July 7, 2015

I didn’t immediately connect Falling Man to your larger body of drawings entitled Shadow Play, despite the highly developed, smooth graphite rendering.  The lift of visual weight in this piece is incredible, imploring the viewer to contemplate an orchestrated (and ultimately indefinitely suspended) fall. I enjoy the darker contour line and subtly contrasted shading on the figures curved back. It reinforces the curve of the spine, and visual trajectory into the void of the open page. While I find all of your figure drawings elegant and provocative, this piece offers a different sort of dynamic in the absence of a grounding shadow, and degree of open space.