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Another artist exhibited a loop of photographs of ordinary wo about their everyday lives on a coether except, well, they were all photographs of ordinary wo about their everyday lives

The four walls of the next roo this up--a wall The walls in the photographs seemed to be from an empty motel room or possibly an efficiency apartment Three of the walls were blank The fourth fraether I suppose you could argue that the photographs were meant to depict the emptiness of our lives, yet all I saas a room badly in need of furniture, not unlike htout of the gallery--and don’t think I hadn’t considered it--then I just wasn’t the , all the while searching for her

I didn’t find Benny, but I did find an exhibit that I actually enjoyed--a series of woodcuts printed on silk The prints were thirty inches wide and five feet high and hung fro each other One in particular I found fascinating Looking at it fro a wo fro it fro wolf After exa it for a few moments, I noticed that the face of the wolf and the woman morphed into one

I discovered a title card that accompanied the oman It read PORNO WOLF GIVES ME A STOMACHACHE, B ROSAS I decided right then that artists should not be allow to title their oork

An arm looped around my arm Benny’s voice said, "What do you think?"

"Beautiful," I said

She stepped back and spun in a small circle Her full red cotton skirt swirled around tanned legs; a black fitted linen jacket eht around her torso The jacket had three buttons, but only the ood," she said

"Yes, you do But I meant the silk screen" I pointed at the o to takeWalter S at a barbecue joint in Uptown Otherwise"

"That sounds like fun"

"Good" I continued to study the silk print

"You really like this piece of junk?" Benny said

"Yes I like it very much"

"Why?"

"I’m not sure Maybe because it asks questions that demand answers Who’s the hunter, who’s the prey? It tells a story--I just haven’t worked it out"

"The story could be different for everyone who looks at it," Benny said

"Isn’t that the definition of art? That it affects us all differently depending on what each of us brings to it?"

Benny shrugged "What about the rest of the show?"

"That depends Do you know these people?"