Mark Peckmezian — Nice Ensemble x Arches As we look closer

As we look closer

the sentimental form persists

spaghetti junctions and skid row – but the place is not so easily distilled or visualised

emancipation or resistance

Mark Peckmezian — Nice Ensemble x Arches As we look closerYou look nice. How exhilarating and terrifying to be looked at, to be seen to realize youve been an image this whole time. All that patient primping, that painstaking preparation, suddenly confronted with its own potential: This is me! you say, aspirationally tucking a stray strand of hair behind your ear, Im trying to look like me! You turn to face the audience, and in that state of perpetual becoming, you wonder: Will my outside ever meet my inside?