Sailboats and Swans OOP it is not simply a

it is not simply a matter of looking

The American Series represents one of those rare experiences for photographers where the photographs almost—just—happened

she also created the psychological space for them

and clichés of a Californian paradise

These images possess the erotic and dreamlike qualities of the films they are taken from and stand on their own as haunting individual glimpses into the artist's imagination

Sailboats and Swans OOP it is not simply a"There is nothing easy about it. It is a constructed moment, a scene within a scene, the real within the unreal. They are moments, lunga fermata, suspensions of time in the midst of what might otherwise be unbearable. The images are about a kind of discomforttheirs, hers, mine and ours. It is like an old fashioned staring contestone guy looks at the other and the first one who blinks is the loser, except Michal Chelbin never blinks. Instead she