ABSTRACT
Rappe uses part of a relatively contemporary movie poster with images of two movie stars from a generation ago to create new relationships and associations that span time. Image elements include manicured parks that in the past were built and maintained on a large scale. In total, in her combined appropriations, she represents six women and five men. Three are in pairs, three are alone, and two are together and shown close-up. There seems to be increasing consensus and scientific evidence that most creatures, including humans, are by nature polygamous and some socially monogamous, in particular when it is to the benefit of their offspring. In Rappe's image the austerity of the gardens, the formality of the closing, the utterly tamed and artificially shaped trees are set against a wilder, bigger background of mature trees and ground cover that appears to have been left in place and peace to grow at will.
