One of the key threads of Fragments is the way that vision changes depending on your vantage point, and there are dramatic shifts in both
perspective and scale throughout; from digital explorations
via endless scroll to earth — as -
camera, as in Jeremy Bolen's Site A / Plot M series (2012).
To mention a few, Lisa Bartolozzi's essay on painting techniques shows how incessantly experimental painting has always been; Vincent Desiderio looks deeply into figurative painting's» technical narrative»; Alexi Worth's hypothesizes «the invention of clumsiness» after photography hit the 19th c. painting world; Donald Kuspit describes some of the impact Freud had on the figure; Kurt Kauper explains kitsch and Jule Heffernan «the male gaze»; Laurie Hogin examines the politics of figurative painting; and John Jacobsmeyer and Nicola Verlato each discuss the meanings of spatial organization
via perspective, the
camera obscura, 3 - D modeling, and cyberspace.