The
Boston Globe, July 11, 1998:
Take Chad Joiner's series of photographs, "Abject and Adolescence."
These close-up images of bed linens are saturated in more ways than
one. The pale shades of the sheets fill the frames of these
photographs, becoming a world unto themselves. They are also stained
with urine, blood and semen, and burned with cigarettes. They chart
the life of the body, in bed and often unconscious, secreting and
expelling and leaving its mark. It's both compelling and
discomforting—someone else's dirty laundry turned into art.
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