Word: foregrounds
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...naked boy stands at the edge of the woods, butt twisted toward the camera. The weeds in the foreground are excruciatingly in-focus. The title is "Marble Faun," evoking Hawthorne's primal America. The photographer is Fred Holland Day, a forgotten Bostonian who was famous in his time...
...technique is a modernization of the classic optical illustration developed by Edgar Rubin in which viewers see either a vase or two faces depending on how they direct their attention. The viewers perceive one of the two patches as being in the foreground and the other as being in the background by choosing where to direct their attention...
...stark as this line. The work is essentially a symphony on the theme of these words. The nameless Son is a humdrum high school student when he accidentally runs over his nine year old sister with a car. He is plucked out of obscurity to occupy the foreground of a blood red stage, where he speaks for two hours on the topic of his sister, his family and his dissatisfaction with life in general, interrupted sporadically by dialogue largely vacant of meaning. The figure of the Daughter haunts the Son, often twinning his gestures or acting out key moments...
Martin said the song's surreal lyrics do, however, contain psychedelic images. Martin also said the spiky, leafed plants in the foreground album's cover are not marijuana leaves, as rumored among some fans...
...Throughout the book secondary characters' faces are cropped out or obscured by foreground objects...