Arrayed among the more traditional sumi ink works at the Chinese Culture Foundation's group show, «The Moment for Ink,» Toyin Odutola's dark, textured ballpoint - ink - and -
marker drawings pop - in their intensity, richness and blackness.
David Bordwell contends that Tarantino deliberately signals his sources to his audience, «in order to tease
pop connoisseurs into a new level of engagement,» while Aaron C. Anderson writes that by using framing
markers and calculatingly phony distancing devices (like, for example, the black - and - white process shots in Pulp Fiction), «Tarantino
draws attention to his film's status as a film, as a constructed work of fiction, and as a «simulation.