Emily Eveleth
Curtain Call, 2020
oil and colored pencil on Mylar
14.75 x 13.5 inches (image)
20.5 x 21.75 inches (sheet)
20.5 x 21.75 inches (sheet)
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Curtain Call brings together two thoughts; The intensity of the underlit stage, with its gleam from below, found in early Japanese theater and described in Tanziaki’s “In Praise of Shadows”,...
Curtain Call brings together two thoughts; The intensity of the underlit stage, with its gleam from below, found in early Japanese theater and described in Tanziaki’s “In Praise of Shadows”, where the footlights beam up from below, highlighting the underside of the forms and making the background into a dark enveloping embrace. The second is how the faded soft pink, of which only a hint is seen, could conjure the era of the aging actress, the Norma Desmonds of the world, all lilting and bowed.