The Quays live and work together in London, avoiding popular culture and choreographing broken antique dolls, garlic skins, rusty nails, dusty feathers, and pieces of liver to atonal, mostly Eastern European music.
According to the New York Post, Loren turned up looking like she'd been "left out in the rain and her hair and skin turned rusty".
Not even a life spent chuffing down 17 packs of Lambert & Butler a day while lying on a sunbed, face slathered in vegetable oil, fresh from a chemical peel, taking occasional breaks only to have one's skin scrubbed with sandpaper, rusty nails and acid will age a person as swiftly as waxing sentimental about objects from their childhood that were, unquestionably, crap.
Each patient denied exposure to recreational water, aquarium water, water with rusty sediment, or any other potential skin irritants.
A rusty blade is a dull blade and will cause skin irritation.
One pair of skin-tight cargo pants looked like they were made of a rusty red lace, but the fabric was actually a micro-print of Venus flytraps.
Celery root has a thick, nubbly skin that has to be scraped away; the yellowish-white flesh within will turn rusty brown unless it is immersed in water with something acidic like lemon added.
Where is the Chablis of skinned knees and jelly sandwiches? with the aftertaste of cruel Little League coaches? and the undertone of rusty stationwagon?
Combined with stunning selections of music and video-like pulsing punctuations of the action, MTO portrays a beauty and sadness; as well as the rusty sharp edge of a knife cutting both ways, revealing the real violence of a culture lying just underneath its skin.
