Republican American

Could there be a worse name for a newspaper? The local Waterbury paper has written a review of the CT Biennial and spotlighted Aqualung and given us a vocabulary lesson in the process.

Few images do that as well as Nathan Lewis' stirring and incriminating "Aqualung," an oleaginous image of people drowning in a corrosive blue oil slick. One man lunges for safety toward the latticework of the falling oil slick. Another screams as his body is sucked into the greasy bilge. All that is left of one woman is a polka dot clutch, held piteously aloft. This is perhaps the exhibit's most trenchant, prescient image and it is also its most searing indictment.