Scottish painter Alasdair Wallace's richly - layered work is suffused with the surrealism of the everyday, portraying worlds filled
with odd juxtapositions.
Last week in the span of 36 hours I was confronted
with the oddest juxtaposition of visual images; in total, a poignant manifestation of powerful events gripping our country.
Not exact matches
But language is what the poet has to work
with, and so the poet is forced to take sometimes exaggerated, sometimes extreme steps to pierce the mundane, breaking up lines, using words in
odd new contexts, relying on sound effects and packing the stanzas
with sensuous images and fragments from scripture, and the common language of faith suddenly takes on new meaning through these
odd juxtapositions.
I hadn't planned to wear them together, but I happened to have the jacket in my suitcase and I liked the
odd juxtaposition of camouflage
with sheer ballerina pink tiers.
The large - scale arrangements of palms, yuccas, cactuses, and cheese plants refusing to be contained by the black cage - like frames make an
odd juxtaposition with the tidy green fields and farmhouses visible through the windows.
Through an unusual crop, a seamless edit, an
odd juxtaposition, an incongruent photomontage, a staged remake, Maamoun shakes up our expectations and toys
with our perception.
America Is Hard to See is filled
with surprises,
odd juxtapositions and stuff that rarely sees the light of day.