The beauty of Bielander's creatures - unmistakable in their being true to life and yet convincing in their confession to their material basis of metal, shell, plastic, pearls, rubber jam-jar rings - is inseparable from their carnevalesque cheerfulness.

Regardless of whether they come swimming, creeping, blown by: Their most precious freight is the joke, which they themselves embody.

Pravu Mazumdar, 2009

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