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“Burning Billboards” by Jacob Boyd

December 2, 2009 – 2:24 pm

Leah Oates; UNTITLED FROM TRANSITORY SPACE SERIES; C-print; 20 x 24 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Pierogi Flat Files.
At first read Jacob Boyd’s decastitch strikes one as a narrative in miniature with some moral to prove, but by its self-assured pace and fine correlatives “Burning Billboards” invites a second look. Imperatives reveal themselves as questions, and the distance between making a stand and settling slips beyond the horizon of aeons.

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