When it aims for the ecstatic it works well, but it doesn’t colour its muted periods with anything like the precision, the uneasy vistas it is aiming for never quite forming.
Tim Hecker is a difficult artist for me to grasp, but I'm making my best effort to follow up and, in a way, understand his complete art.Tim Hecker is a difficult artist for me to grasp, but I'm making my best effort to follow up and, in a way, understand his complete art. Making peace with the idea of not needing to understand it to enjoy it helps, yet, there is still something that hurts a lot when he appears in my environment. "No Highs" might be myself reassuring some things are better left for imagination, specially since being surrounded by Hecker, in a way, is surrounding my imagination to a wide and sensible feeling of adrift. I just don't know why there is nothing to hold on to him for me, and yet, I still apreciate the discoveries Hecker proposes.…Full Review »