Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The way we damage other people is not always meant, it is not always with a design or purpose, we leave that to politicians and those with the agenda of keeping secrets intact. However, occasionally the damage executed is created by the tsunami of events that wash over us, the knives that are out and the inability to make sense of the world around us; the fear of what we might believe is the absurd, the futile and the meaningless.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The art of the surreal is to draw attention to the sense of the off balance that we feel when we stop to look at the world from a position of standing still, to make us do more than think, but to accept that all we may have put faith in may be wrong, that we have forgotten to stop blindly accepting, that we don’t know how to communicate with someone with different ideas without starting a fight; to consent to the fantastic and weird is the best possible course of action that humanity can do.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
What may seem surreal to one, makes perfect sense in the eyes of another, and it is in this dichotomy of visual experiences that confronts the reader of Rob Davis’ The Motherless Oven, to delve further into the notion of the rationalising strange, that is what constitutes the embrace of imagination, of recognising that the extraordinary can happen.