WS-109, WS-127
Georg Friedrich Handel���s Water Music should be
playing when one views the images in Brian Oglesbee���s
monograph, Aquatique. The large black and white
images, many of them full bleed, reproduced on excellent,
heavy paper, depict several female models seemingly
in or above water, their faces and bodies distorted:
romantic, spectral, ecstatic, glamorous and slightly
disturbing, these water nymphs are compelling. They
are transformational, lingering between earth and the
beyond. Distorted, they appear sometimes as phantoms,
sometimes as angels, nereids, the water goddesses, in
Greek mythology, helpful to sailors. WS-74 and WS-127
encapsulates elements of all of the above.
HYLAND
