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A review by dav
Sequential Drawings by Richard McGuire
3.0
This was a four star book, but I'm docking it a star for seemingly bending physics willy-nilly in the middle of a particular sequence for, I assume, some misguided sense of convenience in the service of creating delight. The book generated plenty of untarnished simple delight, so I postponed writing this review for a few days, to see if I could shake the one mishap, but in that time my annoyance failed to lessen, so bye bye star #4.
Here's the gist of my complaint. In one sequence we are following a series of framing and reflections as we move backwards through and outside of an apartment. So we're expanding out a three dimensional construct on each step in our heads which is quite fun, but in the middle at one point we are shown the ever shrinking and receding series in a mirror of an above the sink cabinet of a bathroom.
And in the next step, we are shown the same reflection, but this time through the window that was visible in the last step.
In other words, we are shown the exact same reflection from two different goddamn angles!
It shook me to my core.
Here's the gist of my complaint. In one sequence we are following a series of framing and reflections as we move backwards through and outside of an apartment. So we're expanding out a three dimensional construct on each step in our heads which is quite fun, but in the middle at one point we are shown the ever shrinking and receding series in a mirror of an above the sink cabinet of a bathroom.
And in the next step, we are shown the same reflection, but this time through the window that was visible in the last step.
In other words, we are shown the exact same reflection from two different goddamn angles!
It shook me to my core.