Odd Couples
By Chris Pole
I hadn't really noticed how the portrait on the glass in Laurence Aberhart's photograph is reflected onto the interior wall of the tomb until the label accompanying the work pointed it out. The reflections in Bill Culbert's sculpture are a little more obvious for the less observant amongst us.
The interlocking yin yang smooch to the left is reflected (a la Aberhart and Culbert) in Mike P's more abstract
+/- Kiss the baby goodbye.
The koru forms Parakowhai uses are echoed by Lonnie Hutchinson, and her dramatic backlighting is not unlike that emitted by Peter Roche.
That silhoetting is also present in a more natural form in Denise Copland's Indigenous print, though Corot pulled it off a good century earlier.
Speaking of Corot, he provided a cottage at Valmondois-sur-Seine-et-oise to Honore Daumier when he became blind in his old age. The white horse in his satirical cartoon to the right is mirrored in Anthony McKee's photo below. Facing off with a paddock of sheep, this image personifies (or animal-ifies?) the ultimate in odd couples.
