The Veil and the Thicket
(excerpt from Introduction)
“Vision is the paramount human faculty, our sensorial introduction to the world. It is key to our survival, how we navigate and make sense of our environment, and our place in it.
“When vision is obscured, our comprehension of the world is likewise incomplete. We may face danger or, as Eugene O’Neill wrote in Long Day’s Journey into Night (1956), we glimpse a profound existential secret as the veil of all things temporal is pulled back.
“In The Veil and the Thicket, Joseph Podlesnik captures the fleeting moment between the known and unknown as an array of physical barriers that frustrate clear vision, and render otherwise familiar scenes surreal. The filters - some diaphanous, and some dense - prompt questions about looking and seeing, vision as organizing principle, and what - or if - we are entitled to see.”
-- Roula Seikaly, Senior Editor, Humble Arts Foundation