reviewing an interview with Charles Cohen

     In the interview with Charles Cohen there are quite a few topics that are touched on. Professor Cooley starts out the interview asking Cohen about his use of presence/absence in his work. Cohen explains how he wants the viewer to experience three different effects from the cut outs in his work. He goes on to explain how the cut outs in his different series can give such different feelings even though they both involve the idea of two people in some sort of relationship. Cooley also goes into depth to asking about Cohen's take on technology and wether or not all of these things we use daily are actually isolating us instead of further connecting us. Cohen says that he thinks it does cause a sense of insolation and distancing between people. He also touches on the idea of cut outs being used in commercialism.

     Reading this article was interesting to me because it felt like an overview of class on Monday. I thought that the discussions we had in class were very closely related to this interview so that was interesting for me to see it written down to get a better idea of it. I liked reading about the differences/similarities between Cohen's two series and how even though they may seem very much the same they were still very different. I especially liked how he mentioned that he won't put the two series in the same room or display so that they won't compete with each other. I think that his work is very interesting. I aslo liked his take on technology actually isolating us more than connecting us. Overall, I think this article was most interesting because it recapped our Monday class.