Mango Season

"A chess move, chaos, two fishes offered, a bird in flight, the horse equals the mountains, don’t look at what is right in front of you, Joseph Beuys and the coyote, a pose out of context, all the touch at the edges, haze, disorder, the balance of unexpected things, what is that on the edge? Nothing to see here, a volume that feels like weight, the phantom hand, a garden, tilt and blur, a circle in a square, everything in balance except the gun, the back is more important than the front, everything in the right place, sweat or the leftovers of the sea, Jurassic Park, the wind, the tilt that is right, two shapes, and that tilt again, where the back meets the front, in the way but not, don’t look at that, next time, the background looks to you, balls, circle, all the volumes, escape, the fires again, six steps back, it isn’t a dance, but seems like one, nothing, nothing, done (and chickens). None of this would be of any real use if these photographs by Jenia Fridlyand weren’t factual traps for the imagination. " - John Gossage