PERFORMER, PAINTER, AND PHOTOGRAPHER, Teun Hocks plays the role of"an innocent Everyman in an always strange and often funny world," as Janet Koplos has noted. In scenes that range from burlesque to tragicomic,his engaging Buster Keaton-like persona perseveres, struggling to find stable ground in an unstable, often absurd universe. Life's complications and challenges may lake the form of impossible Rube Goldbergian contrap-tions or of odd and unforgiving environments fraught with psychological implications. Each resonant image captures one moment of an implied narrative, triggering inevitable questions about how the protagonist got himself into such a peculiar fix and what in the world will happen next.

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