Yarbles! Bolshy great yarblockos to thee and thine!

Last Wednesday, I went to Nicholas Carbanaro’s art show. The piece that stuck out to me was the painting of the weighty wench. What initially caught my attention was the patch of hair on her left bosom. As I got closer, I realized it was a set of eyelashes, so I looked up to her face and saw that indeed her eyes weren’t equally clothed. Her false eyelashes were reminiscent of those of Alex from A Clockwork Orange. I then noticed that her skin was colored orange and thought, “All right, this is what I’m writing about.” (Cassaro, 237) From then on, I couldn’t separate the sinister vision of Alex from this woman. Although her image was intense instead of ill-meaning, her fake eyelashes, sun skin, and naked nipples kept reminding me of Alex’s perverse pleasures. The woman’s aloof and laid-back attitude made her less terrifying than Alex, but, whether supercilious or sardonic, both characters were intimidating in their own ways.

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