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This is some egregious #skinnyframebullshit (although that awareness does provide an interesting complication of interpretation when taken together with the way that the dude here has a part of his head chopped off whereas she has half of her lower leg amputated by the frame edge–a sort of men sacrifice part of their mental capacity whereas women sacrifice a degree of their autonomous mobility as part and parcel of the heterosexual coupling process).
And, while I like the way the lampshade figures in the frame, the garish 70s vibe of the room behind them is more than a little bit repellant.
What’s great about this has to do with concerns of scale (the room and it’s furnishings may be inexcusable in their unsightliness but the relationship of the subjects to their environment does work a lot better than most of the porn I’ve ever seen) and the way that the action is staged introduces questions of whether or not the they are strictly voyeurs or whether their presence has been forgotten in a moment of shared connubial bliss. (Here: the viewer is most definitely not a participant in the proceedings; and although I’m not sure how to completely articulate it beyond merely pointing towards it by way of indication: this fact does serve to instill a fairly artlessly executed image with a certain conceptual reflexivity between form and function that I find rather intriguing.
Acetylene Eyes 