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plane, however, a narrow vertical space is left between them. Looking closely one sees a single, loose fiber seeming to reach across the divide to join both sides together. Blue Boys shows us two males seen from behind as they peer through openings in bright blue woven tarps at some unseen spectacle. Here the missing piece is the scene that is hidden from us but the photographer, the boys and we are all bound together in the act of looking.
In only one photograph, Necessity, do we encounter a pair of human eyes staring back at us. We see that one of Van Ness’s daughters has crawled beneath the seat cushions of a large sofa. She lies there, horizontal and motionless, staring directly at the camera. This is the place where one finds loose change or perhaps a missing piece to a jigsaw puzzle. Why is she there? Is she, like the missing puzzle
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