http://www.constantcritic.com/vanessa_place/lorazepam-and-the-valley-of-skin-extrapolations-on-los-angeles/ Timely poetry reviews Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:37:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.constantcritic.com/vanessa_place/lorazepam-and-the-valley-of-skin-extrapolations-on-los-angeles/comment-page-1/#comment-73826 Lorazepam and the Valley of Skin: Extrapolations on Los Angeles/730910-2155 | valeveil Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:32:39 +0000 http://www.constantcritic.com/?p=363#comment-73826 [...] Every place has its arenas where what is simply nature in another place is the breathtakingly artificial in another. And we love these moments of great artificiality because they serve as false and reassuring desublimation: in other words, California’s burnt (sun-and-out) laconicism is happiest when hysterical, just as Sweden wishes it were not so very Swedish … In the pale and patterned IKEA-land, one wants burnt oranges and marine blues, and Cali bodies that know no boundaries: 730910-2155 and Lambert were made to mirror one another insofar as mirrors both reflect and project whatever light is cast upon them. – Vanessa Place, LA-based writer, Les Figues co-founder and Constant Critic [...] [...] Every place has its arenas where what is simply nature in another place is the breathtakingly artificial in another. And we love these moments of great artificiality because they serve as false and reassuring desublimation: in other words, California’s burnt (sun-and-out) laconicism is happiest when hysterical, just as Sweden wishes it were not so very Swedish … In the pale and patterned IKEA-land, one wants burnt oranges and marine blues, and Cali bodies that know no boundaries: 730910-2155 and Lambert were made to mirror one another insofar as mirrors both reflect and project whatever light is cast upon them. – Vanessa Place, LA-based writer, Les Figues co-founder and Constant Critic [...]

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