Singer Yan's breathless vocals - Marilyn Monroe meets Marilyn Manson - are swamped by a sea of screeching, nagging guitars on Apologies To Insect Life, his clever words and imagery reduced to a pained yelp by the speeding rhythm.
The comic in question is Mockingbird #8, by Chelsea Cain and Kate Niemczyk, which uses hard cuts, out-of-story imagery, and clever storytelling to flip the proverbial script.
Winman certainly has a way with imagery though, a clever combination of the literal and the metaphorical: a woman who's clad in the wrong footwear to scale the wall Drake's built around his heart, "hers were far too sensible for a man like Drake"; or a bruise "inching acr oss" a heart.
The writing churns at being clever but is full of overblown imagery and cliché.
The slowness, in both the music – Prince meets Cocteau Twins – and director Nabil Elderkin's imagery, is a deliberate, clever device, interrupting the incessant speed of the internet age.
At first glance, his two prints look like throwbacks, but on closer inspection they prove to be clever amalgams of historical and contemporary imagery, poignantly conflating past and present in an effort to connect the two.
The monochromatic colors are sharp and deep, while the abstract imagery is entertaining and clever.
It is clever and captivating, as much for the imagery as for the muddling of art conventions.
Without that philosophical dimension all the works in "Statuesque" remain more or less clever but not terrifically imaginative pastiches of imagery gleaned from museums and art history textbooks.
