Tom Thompson, Live Feed (2001)

Live Feed crackles and hums with newness. It is as fresh a re-imagining of the possibility of what language can be to the cityscape as Hart Crane's was to the Brooklyn Bridge. It's "break-neck," "nervy static," "non-sequential sequins." It's voyeurism, gunmetal, brick and pigeons. With its cracks and fissures visible, Live Feed is the brash and beautiful portrait of today's urban family.