Identi-Kit

“When I see you messing me around, I don’t want to know,” Mr. Yorke sings in “Identikit,” and whether he’s thinking about personal, political or corporate betrayal — or just about the way facial features can be interchanged and messed around with in a police Identi-Kit — is unclear, even after the Beatles-tinged chorus arrives: “Broken hearts make it rain.”

Viewers queued up to enter this office space, with its chromed desk and chrome desk fittings and infinitely multiplying images of models that look chosen from an Identi-Kit wearing shades of gray, and then wandered around slightly dazed by the surplus of reflectivity.

To return the process to its crime-busting roots, Efros imagines that AverageExplorer, with some tweaks, could improve on the Identi-Kit portraits drawn by police artists on the basis of eyewitness descriptions.

It can sometimes seem at a Barrett show as if the designer conceives of the body in Identi-Kit units.

Greg Berlanti, Michael Green, Marc Guggenheim and Michael Goldenberg, the concocters of Green Lantern, had 70 years of the DC comic-book character to use as inspiration; but they also borrowed enough tropes from old film fantasies to make an Identi-kit of blockbuster cliches.