Foregrounds (1978)

FOREGROUNDS like SAUGUS SERIES is devoted almost entirely to carefully constructed spatial ambiguities The most visceral of these prints a rotating boulder occupying half of the screen over a slow lateral pan across the desert painted by Neon Park A faint superimposition of leaves on top of the landscape has the effect of pushing its vista farther back in space Correspondingly the boulder bulges out of the pictureplane like a Cezanne apple The effect is so strong that even when ONeill begins to animate scratches over the image ones eye refuses to surrender the illusion of volume J Hoberman The Village Voice