| Adam
Bartos regards his subjects with a cool, deadpan eye, and, over-eager to
impress, they inadvertently reveal ironic inconsistencies of character.
A chubby boy wears a barbecue grill halo like some debased cherub. Dad,
wearing a Nike-swoosh-boomerang, attempts to tame fire with a wooden stick,
seemingly unaware of the futility. Even the United Nations Building, that
jet age bastion of sleek authority is all bluster, with a befuddling tangle
of signs at the security desk. Bartos, however, is no violator. His subjects
unmask themselves. |