Lip Service: Joshua Mosley
mouthtomouth magazine, Chicago, Spring, 2003

Joshua Mosley, Donald Young Gallery. It took just five minutes for us to fall in love with Mr. Mosley, whose mixed-media animation Commute (2003) managed to skewer the clichés of the blasé traveler--persisting in inane cellphone conversations with folks back home, yielding to the prescribed "adventure" of the (albeit lunar) cruise, missing the boat of having Descartes for a local guide--while casting himself as the accidental tourist who winds up in a grander existential exploration of inner space. Setting claymation figures against fluttering charcoal backgrounds (think Kentridge meets Davey and Goliath), Mosley's brief, exquisitely rendered film celebrated the surrender to curiosity and risk that ultimately makes the difference between journeying and standing still.