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MACHINE DREAMS

Alexei Taylor, Author
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Spectator

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The man in Frans Zwartjes’ Spectator never really engages with the woman, although he does get more involved with her by the end of the short film. At first, he only speculates at a distance from the women, but he reaches a point in which his interest for her is grown too big for him to remain unaffected and neutral. He steps in to the scene but even then, and until the end, he fails to play an active role. This man represents the role of a spectator, though understandably for some people, in a somewhat vulgar way.

Flipping through Secret Knowledge without reading the texts would give you an idea of what the distinction between a spectator and an observer is. As someone walking around the Louvre, overwhelmed by the amount of iconic and beautiful artworks, would feel, the visual evidence alone in Hockney’s book only leads the reader to become “a passive onlooker at a spectacle”. However, Hockney’s texts provide the reader with the guidelines of what they should look out for in the provided pictures in each and past pages, allowing the reader to really connect with the message he is trying to convey. Through this, Hockney transforms the reader in to an observer.
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