"I've got too much work to do to stop and freak out," he says in his
underfurnished office.
In his San Francisco debut, Oshiro showed just five works, and the show's spare installation made the gallery feel more like a severely
underfurnished warehouse loft than an exhibition space.
Here is a raven in flight from near the end of the book: "Updrafts dance in the finger-like feathers off the backs of her wings." Such abrupt photographs of sensation transform the
underfurnished world of the Arctic, rendering it as contingent as the historical situation they seek to represent.
His self-loathing, fueled by much wine, is hardly mitigated by the fruits of his success: a new baby and a huge,
underfurnished house in an unnamed, culture-free zone somewhere out West.
Remember, the fact that this area was
underfurnished is part of the reason it was underused.
Nevertheless, it was woefully
underfurnished when the FitzGeralds came to live there in 1975.
"That has a huge psychological affect on pupils being taught in
underfurnished rooms and using books and equipment clearly outdated.