Manal Kara: The Viewing-Room vs. The Adoring-Gaze
Sep 18, 2020 - Oct 25, 2020
We are transported to a sort of amalgam of all Viewing-Rooms, perhaps the ur-Viewing-Room or the Platonic ideal of Viewing-Rooms. There are glass panes and screens all around. On the floor is a case holding six eggs and an object that looks like a sort of oversized bar jigger. Its handle is a blow tube. We place an egg into one of the cups of the jigger and blow into the tube, and a cow hatches from the egg and stands in the room, gazing at us lovingly. We hatch the rest of the cows by the same method. They are standing all around gazing intently with their huge beautiful fringed eyes. The screens and windows have all dissolved, we are now in an endless field, surrounded by cows and their adoring eyes and eyelashes. The Viewing-Room has been transformed into the Adoring-Gaze.
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We are transported to a sort of amalgam of all Viewing-Rooms, perhaps the ur-Viewing-Room or the Platonic ideal of Viewing-Rooms. There are glass panes and screens all around. On the floor is a case holding six eggs and an object that looks like a sort of oversized bar jigger. Its handle is a blow tube. We place an egg into one of the cups of the jigger and blow into the tube, and a cow hatches from the egg and stands in the room, gazing at us lovingly. We hatch the rest of the cows by the same method. They are standing all around gazing intently with their huge beautiful fringed eyes. The screens and windows have all dissolved, we are now in an endless field, surrounded by cows and their adoring eyes and eyelashes. The Viewing-Room has been transformed into the Adoring-Gaze.
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