We make use of the most sacred domestic affections, of maternal, filial, and, I was going to say, connubial love — but the system forbids, and I have to say contubernal — for such rapid and accumulating production of the iniquity[…]
‘You see?’ said Mrs Gowan, turning the palms of her hands towards Mr Meagles, as if she were Justice herself, representing to him that he had better confess, for he had not a leg to stand on.
The implications are both celebratory and valedictory, which makes sense for work that looks back on suppressed histories but also brings those histories, and the reality of their suppression, forward in a stylish and unsensationalist art of the present. Ms. Winterling will screen another film, “The Flambards,” at the gallery tonight at 7.
There is a way it seems to us to see sunflowers not just as some more shaped and colored things, but as what has a distinctively sunflowery look.
