Ways of seeing a Wylie image

Human misery: an object of consumption.

Walter Benjamin

1.

An A-Level Art student googles a Donovan Wylie

image to complete her sketchbook:

i’ve chosen this image because of the strong composition. i

like the makeshift shelves in the corner and the textures and

patterns in the image: the cork board, etc... it’s a bit like the

arte povera brief and i want to include textures and patterns

in my drawings and photos.

2.

A critic in a broadsheet reviews ‘Losing Ground’*:

.... Framed by woodcut irises, sunlight assaults her

gently. Asleep, blanket for a pillow, she’s some

Ophelia Rossetti would have painted.

3.

Anonymous leaves a comment in the visitor book

of Donovan Wylie’s exhibition:

Great exhibition! Well laid- out. The image of the young

man downing vodka as his girlfriend (?) lays asleep is

particularly striking.

*

Book of photographs by Donovan Wylie