Everyone's face as pale and blank as those on the field.
There's a strange moment in that scene, in which the journalist discusses the neighborhood where the events take place, his own former neighborhood: just as he discusses unrest that made the neighborhood dangerous at the time of the revolution, Kiarostami's camera shows a long, tall, blank, pale gray wall that nearly fills the screen.
(Somewhere, in some hidden box in my storage locker, I still have the photo of us right after that show: my long hair matted to my head, my shirt stuck to my body with sweat, my skin as pale as a blank page, but with a shit-eating grin on my face as if I'd just crested Mt. Kilimanjaro).
Freakishly large, eerily pale and an utter blank on the palate, they could have been ill-advised laboratory mutations: Frankenmussels.
Dark artwork tends to have pale and desaturated skin, blank or plucked eyeballs, and black backgrounds.
"She looked at me right in the eye with the blankest face, the blankest white pale face, a face that haunts me to this day, and says, 'I love you,' he recalled.
And his pale palette can create a blank canvas for dust.
His face, a blank canvas of pale flesh accented by circumflex eyebrows, has a disturbing, masklike aspect.
Craggy islands painted in pale red wash emerge from blank oceans of white in Sea Hyun Lee's paintings at Aspex in Portsmouth.
