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tiny television and a figure seemingly hypnotized by the cathode light of the TV. Outside the living room window one can see a Chessie coal car, The Night Train of the title. The piece’s detail is stunning, and documents, no less than do Herrera’s and Gladkov’s photographs, a disappearing slice of life. Slack is like an archivist transforming source material into a three-dimensional replica.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and so does memory. The drive back to Washington, D.C., may have paralleled the movement of history - from open country to city - but what history tries to destroy, memory may maintain. That the preservation of cultural information can result in satisfying art is indisputable, and this may well be the unique calling of the rural artist.
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