One of the things that I find so moving about your father’s career is the way idea follows idea follows idea. There’s a questing there that I really admire. These feel so provisional and immaterial—you say that they’re “unresolved” and I feel that so strongly. It’s like the lines themselves are a part of the quest.
Oh, my! Things fall apart, the center cannot hold. He pulls me into the heart of a great unraveling, in which only the eyes are not morphing into formlessness. What an unnerving portrayal of an artist’s impoverished old age.
Go Away and Standing Man are extraordinary. Standing Man in particular is remarkable in the way the continuous lines appear like a tangle of yarn and somehow gather to form the image in spite of their chaotic and stringlike quality.
Thanks for that. Tangle is a good word for these, and applies equally to my feelings about them! Writing this helped me appreciate them more, as do these comments. 🙏
One of the things that I find so moving about your father’s career is the way idea follows idea follows idea. There’s a questing there that I really admire. These feel so provisional and immaterial—you say that they’re “unresolved” and I feel that so strongly. It’s like the lines themselves are a part of the quest.
Thank you for this. That’s lovely.
Oh, my! Things fall apart, the center cannot hold. He pulls me into the heart of a great unraveling, in which only the eyes are not morphing into formlessness. What an unnerving portrayal of an artist’s impoverished old age.
Yes, maybe that’s the explanation. Poignant—
These are great. I love your writing, Victoria.
Thank you, Cynthia! I have appreciated your encouragement for years now— it means a lot to me.
These works are both unsettling and yet also full of vibrant life
Yes, that’s what I think too. Now it’s strange to me that I didn’t ask more about that paradox at the time, but <shrug>.
I know very little about art but there is something very captivating about your father's work
Thank you. It’s good to follow that feeling when something in art “catches” you. It’s the main thing, really. 😁
Go Away and Standing Man are extraordinary. Standing Man in particular is remarkable in the way the continuous lines appear like a tangle of yarn and somehow gather to form the image in spite of their chaotic and stringlike quality.
Thanks for that. Tangle is a good word for these, and applies equally to my feelings about them! Writing this helped me appreciate them more, as do these comments. 🙏