Brian Clarke, Collages/Drawing/Paper cuts and lead lines.

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The adoration of the art object is in some way contrary to the nature of art, which does not seek fame or reward for its existence.

It is the nature of the artist that should be treasured, not the objects that he makes.

Dangerous Visions 1977.

Those paintings represented something really significant to me, and that was that there was something much greater than aesthetics and skill beyond making a work of art. 

Collages  2022-2023.

Sometimes there are as many as ten layers of paper. Some of them are absurdly dense and rather difficult to maintain because, before they're ready for framing they have to be disassembled and glued down with permanent glue.

The literal nature of them, the kind of objective, analytical nature of them is no longer a matter of concern to me. The world is such a rich place and whether they're literal or abstracted or positive or negative, seems to me a matter of profound insignificance.

Humility 2023.

Love.

Meekness.

Optimism.

Renewal.

No matter how beautiful, all objects ultimately perish, but the artistic spirit from which they are born does not. The artist will die, but he will be replaced by another who will create things of beauty too, that will ultimately decay. I don't propose a revolution that seeks to devalue beauty or art objects, but only to ask that we remember the virtuous nature of natural creation and quietly move our thoughts away from objects that perish to the spirit of creation that does not.

Brian Clarke.

Drawing.

The pencil for Isozaki, remains the ultimate tool for expressing early ideas about architecture.

Lead Lines/Paper Cuts.

I was painting and drawing figuratively, but I abandoned that because I was more interested in how much nervous energy a line could carry when it wasn't attempting to describe something objective.