The piece we'll be talking about this week has a double impact, not only on a purely aesthetic and collage level, but also as a meta-work incorporating the concept of another piece and the social commentary it delivers. The collection of actors' headshots is deeply personal, each snippet reveals part of a person, but as the poem analyses correctly, those parts are intrinsically similar as all those people compete for a portion of the same - incredibly small - cake. The repetition does not only depersonalize the whole text, it also difuses the focus of the reader along with the 'graphically unfriendly' block type that enhances the notion.
It is very difficult to concentrate on the text, especially the lower part of a page, yet it's not easy to miss an important theme since repetition on the other hand ensures that thoses themes are distributed in a way that makes them stand out from the run-on quality of the text - birth, appearance, materialism, a need for social and professional connections being only some of these themes. The text seems abstract and choppy on the surface due to the broken sentences and the unexpected turns from one topic to the next, but digging deeper one finds an intricate commentary on the dynamics of the fine arts. Ultimately though, it's a stereotype that's carved out of the collage narrative.
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