Perhaps most intriguing is the lush image of a figure with his back to us who first seems to be the artist at work, until you realize that his extended hand hold not a paintbrush, but a gun.
But from the pre-interval moment when the family suddenly announce their wild grief through operatic aria, the production finds its voice and offers one lush image after another.
But when I look at my favorite of Hujar's animal photographs, the tonally lush image of the aforementioned rabbit, with its ears pricked at attention and its dark eyes open wide, I sense his presence behind the camera, trying to catch a glimpse of something beyond his knowing, if only for the fleeting moment of the camera shutter's click.
These add an exotic streak, with lush images of Asia and the tropics, alongside his earlier, grittier covers.
The shift to digital has been opposed by some directors and many cinematographers who contend that digital images feel colder than the more lush images on films.
Those who lingered were drawn to the video installation's lush images and pulsing soundscape, although many glanced away periodically at their phones, texting and e-mailing and posting photos, as though they hadn't quite got the message.
It is the realm of poetry in which the fairy king, Oberon, and his mischievous servant speak in lush images of green figs and purple grapes, butterfly wings and succulent sacs of honey.
In addition, the seductive power of film is such that, inevitably, Janacek's score (with Kent Nagano conducting the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin) sometimes becomes background music, serving as underscoring for the lush images.
Deciding she "wanted to help build a constituency for the Foreign Service," she created unapologetically smooth, lush images that present the embassies, from the most gracious houses to the most forbidding office block, in their best light.
Still, in show after show — "every tongue confess" is his seventh produced drama — Gardley has been working toward his own glory, which is not as florid a phrase as it might seem, given that he traffics in lush images and plots that are as mysterious and surprising as forced flowers blossoming in winter.
Designed by Jeff Morey and Mr. Kelly, these lush images, spliced with harsh interruptions by hospital workers, dive into Italian gardens and villas, speeding high above snow-covered landscapes and through nighttime cities. (The video was shot in locations as disparate as Hong Kong, Rome and the Park Avenue Armory).
