Where's Waldo
With the TokyoSummer Olympics we have a lot of contemporary artists who deal with human bodies and sport.
Since ancient times, artists and craftspeople have wrought not quite facsimiles of the human form. They have idealized, wraped, and paraodied the figure's proportions, erecting pedestals to memorialize its physical prowess. It's little wonder why this practice persists: Our bodies are loaded, perplexing things that are ripe source material for image-makers.
Women's Water Polo at Harvard, 2018
They are strech every day, taunt and preened, the muscles that propel us through space and time, the limbs connecting us to land and sea, or to other bodies.
Darthmouth Basketball, 2019
Human bodies, with forms lithe and fibrous, brawny and perspiring, faces belying some internal reality-but the bodies and gazes of spectators, which are olso fixed in suspended alerteness, are subject to extremes.
Darthmouth Basketball Side View (Balls), 2019