"The Western Lands" is Michael Zansky's exhibition at the Nicholas Robinson gallery, which shows spinning still-lifes distorted in through freestanding lenses. The weird and absurd still-lifes show a mixture of broken toys and figurines sitting atop heavy fabric. The lenses can either show the work miniaturized, or many times larger than actuality. In the front of the gallery stood a grouping of these works with a much lighter color-palette. This created the illusion of rain drops, with life slowing moving through them as if on the window of a moving car. My favorite work, however, was of a rapidly moving confection of pink tulle, ribbon, and a fairy wand. Instead of projecting ugliness, this clearly channeled a childhood innocence and was strikingly beautiful as it whirled around. The work spun faster than the rest, and was accompanied by several lenses, distorting it in many ways.
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