by David Williamson
Professor of Art
Baldwin-Wallace College

As Malcolm Gladwell suggests in his book BLINK we have the ability to make snap judgments about the visual world around us. Is something genuinely good or dreadfully bad—we make the decision in the blink of an eye. Thus, as one encounters the black and white photographs by Honey Lazar in her exhibition “BEAUTIFUL AND DANGEROUS” there is the instant realization that this is something special. At once the images are mysterious while clothed in a Zen-like serenity. In the gallery setting, one hears the audience question “no titles?,” “where were these pictures taken?” Lazar emphasizes this information is irrelevant to these works which take us on an aesthetic journey from breathtaking landscapes to the enigmatic compositions of abstraction. We do not need to know of which remote location we are partaking. The thread of continuity that binds this body of work together is beauty. One should sit and allow the essence of the show, this beauty, to become part of their memory.