Rameau's nephew by Diderot

"Each of Michael Snow's works, spanning across painting, sculpture, video, film, photography, holography, drawing, publishing and music, invites us to experience, question and contemplate the representation, its process and material. Rameau's Nephew by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen illustrates his research both in the visual arts and in sound: 'For me, it is an authentic "talking picture," built from the true units of the syllable and the frame. All the possible image/sound relationships centering around people and speech generate the movie-audience relationships: a wide range of emotional possibilities; the experience of seeing/hearing this film. "Speech," "Language," "Culture" - their sources, their nature... recorded, imaged, prove (?) that in this case a word is worth 1000 pictures.'"--Container.