Throughout, the artist's play with repetition and variation, flickering light and muted colors keeps the eye engaged (Johnson).
But Mr. Battle, who takes over from Judith Jamison as the artistic director of the Ailey company in July, is a skillful dance maker who knows how to keep the eye engaged and surprised.
I recently spent three days on the "Mad Men" set, watching the people who work there, along with auditioning actors, most of whom are desperate to please Weiner, catch his eye, engage him.
This is a heartwarming rendition of Wagner's most heartwarming opera, with plenty to keep the eye engaged, including processions through the audience and successive murals that serve as the principal components of the décor (designed by Dirk Becker), including one depicting old Nuremberg.
He managed the extremely difficult task of keeping the eye engaged on a large scale, as groups moved in and out of the center, and on a smaller one too, as individuals emerged from groups, or his own dancers performed lovely brief duos.
It is so elaborately constructed that you overlook its surreal quality, as jagged angles and a spiraling composition keep the eye engaged despite the painting's density and scale.
Of course Van Dyck is not really looking at the viewer, he's looking beyond the canvas towards a mirror – but you feel his eyes engaging with yours.
The classicism of the pose contrasts with others Weston took of Charis around this time, including Charis Wilson, 1935, in which the model adopts the pose Christine Keeler was to make famous, straddling the rush seat of a heavy wooden chair, her petti- coat hitched waist-high, her tight dark top and jaunty beret framing a clear face in which the eyes engage the camera lens directly.
The point where the center lines converge radiates a hint of orange, catching the viewer's eye and engaging it in a push-me, pull-you vision game.
A 25-year-old male presented an inferior scotoma in the right eye after engaging in a CrossFit workout which required "pull ups" with an elastic band tied around the waist and secured to the pull up bar, thus partially supporting body weight.
It offers us the chance to dedicate time to simple but invaluable pleasures such as hugging our children, looking our spouses in the eye, and engaging in true communication without the constant interruptions of today's technology.
