Oils Give a Slick New Take On the Modern World; the Camera Defines Today's Society but One Artist has Painted a Different Picture of Iconic Images.
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It's January and we're apparently promising ourselves a new start: the gym, the diet and the financial makeover. For Christmas, I received a voucher for a session in a flotation tank, those staples of spa and salon that promise that an hour afloat in salty water in a closed chamber listening to new age music is a return to the bliss of the womb.
I'm waiting until my stress levels are sufficiently high to benefit properly from the process (that'll be next week, then), but while I'm looking forward to it, I'm already wondering what it really means to lock yourself away from the world in the pursuit of escape.See the full content of this document
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Oils Give a Slick New Take On the Modern World; the Camera Defines Today's Society but One Artist has Painted a Different Picture of Iconic Images.
At the Talbot Rice Gallery, artist Janice McNab's new paintings feature flotation tanks that look like 21st- century sarcophagi. They are objects that surely Edgar Allan Poe would appreciate: glass- fibre coffins f...
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