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by David P. Greisman - Presented together, they portrayed the before and after, the cause and effect. This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs.
This is your face. Before: Unexceptional. Indistinctive. Anonymous. After: Asymmetrical. Disfigured. Unmistakable.
After: Here are Israel Vazquez and Rafael Marquez. Vazquez’s face is a Rorschach canvas of crimson inkblots, red flecked and squiggled in spots, streaming and screaming from its sources. His skin is a papier-mâché piñata. It takes but one well-placed whack for what’s inside to pour out. Keep hitting it and it comes apart.
Vazquez and Marquez have fought each other four times in three years, three times alone in a 364-day span between March 2007 and March 2008. Their latest match together was marketed as their last match together – “Once And Four All.” It was meant as a description of a conclusive collision. It read like an admission of an ill-conceived continuation. [Click Here To Read More]
This is your face. Before: Unexceptional. Indistinctive. Anonymous. After: Asymmetrical. Disfigured. Unmistakable.
After: Here are Israel Vazquez and Rafael Marquez. Vazquez’s face is a Rorschach canvas of crimson inkblots, red flecked and squiggled in spots, streaming and screaming from its sources. His skin is a papier-mâché piñata. It takes but one well-placed whack for what’s inside to pour out. Keep hitting it and it comes apart.
Vazquez and Marquez have fought each other four times in three years, three times alone in a 364-day span between March 2007 and March 2008. Their latest match together was marketed as their last match together – “Once And Four All.” It was meant as a description of a conclusive collision. It read like an admission of an ill-conceived continuation. [Click Here To Read More]
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