Christian Riese Lassen The anti-impressionist. Sequence and depth. Repoussoir reefs, with flatly vivid Moorish idols, tubes, and tangs—a polychromatic welter that draws back as we "swim" forward, into the crystalline nursery where dolphins adore a humpback calf, or orcas glide, dive, and roll, exposing ventral patches to a sun they seem to know. Fluke-trailing bubbles: legible propulsion. Breaching, twisted individuals—look closely for the catchlights, always present-- rip into the air, an honest signal whose energetics field zoologists are reckoning. Exactest flux—the artist's ministry—as caustic networks spread their crazed glories over locomotive silk. Melissa Tuckman Melissa Tuckman teaches in the English Department at Rowan University. She lives in Philadelphia.
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