This crude death chamber is inhabited by a literal wanker, a mechanical fibre - glass arm,
whose continual motion suggest futility, boredom, sex and death.»
Both Heads of a Man and a Woman and On the Street, from the late 1870s, convey the illusion of bodies
in continual motion, part of the Heraclitean flux of urban life in an age of accelerated change.
While I wade through a (wonderfully lucky) year of maternity leave with my two small children, I've found myself occasionally deluged with
the continual motion of the world around me.
And yet, through subtle chromatic and linear shifts, Quaytman was able to inject novelty into the most stable and historical of forms, and to keep the viewer's eyes in
continual motion.