“The best pieces in the show are the ones, like Andrew Thompson and Scotty Wagner’s mixed media piece Seen and Not Seen, that actually affect the viewer’s perception of time in--for lack of a better term--real time. My first impression of their piece, to be honest, was negative. Located in the back of the gallery, it appears as a mountain of technological detritus. It is basically a heap of outdated televisions, computer parts, and other little nasties. I was ready to write it off as another glib statement on contemporary Western culture’s “throw-away” mentality, which would make the piece boring and didactic, when the gallery co-director showed me the true beauty of the work. The trash heap is hollow and there is a spot, hidden amid the refuse, where the viewer can look inside. The inside is made out to look like a sort of Bedouin living space, replete with sheepskins. There is a figure seated on the ground watching a monitor that relays a live video feed of the gallery from a cleverly hidden camera mounted somewhere on the pile. The effect of watching someone (or something) watch the space that you, the viewer, are a part of, is mesmerizing and serves to actually “unhook” the viewer from time.”

— Excerpt of a review by Tom McCartan, area freelance writer