WRESTLERS #5 T-SHIRT

Wrestlers #5 captures a cradle hold at the point of control. The top fixes the bottom’s head and lifts the leg to fold the body onto itself, cradling the bottom. One body receives the other, bearing its weight at the head and shoulder. The hold here reads at once as care and containment; their faces close, the bottom powerless and immobile.

Dark Matter juxtaposes images of wrestlers with fires and airplane accidents clipped from a rural Idaho newspaper. Upscaled to more than two by three feet, the halftone becomes a veil that withholds close reading of the work. In the fallen figures of the wrestlers, an invisible but ever-present force becomes visible—one that defines the nature of our realities and our relationships.

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