"In Tall Ships, images of bodies, hovering in near three-dimensionality on the walls of a dark corridor, approach and pull the viewer into a shared space; there the viewerr is engaged in an intimate dialogue of gestures and facial expressions. The silence of the images reinforces their presence while their gestures convey deep longing and an isolation relieved only momentarily as the viewer shares the space with them (...) Hill's apparitions elicit a strong response from the viewer, who is launched into a sort of primal discovery of the images and recognizes in them the same desire for an intimacy with the moment and with the other." (Handhardt 2000: 116)

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