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WASHINGTON POST
At Decatur Blue, ‘Rooms’ With a Voyeur’s View
By Jessica Dawson
Thursday, January 3, 2002; Page C05

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Jose Ruiz's installation, too, is a voyeur's delight. He built a wall with a glass window partially obscured by half-open blinds. Beyond it, a monitor plays pulsing, distorted images in fleshy colors. The on-screen imagery turns out to be footage of an exposed light bulb, but it's distorted enough by those crooked blinds to be whatever you want it to be.