18×28 Oil on canvas

18×28 Oil on canvas
11×14 Pen & Ink, Watercolor
Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens: Reportage
by László Krasznahorkai, Ottilie Mulzet (Translation)
Jacob Russell‘s reviewFeb 15, 2021 · edit
I have just come to the last page of Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s Destruction and sorrow beneath the Heavens. What does it mean, to say that This is a great book? It left me in tears, with the feeling that all books… poems… works of art, are the same… the same, by their very difference. This is a book to read as you set out to write a poem, or make a painting, at the end of the world… a poem no one will survive to read a painting, no one will survive to see.
This is not a report of traveling through Southeast China. This is not about searching for the lost classical culture of Imperial China. This is a fable. An extended fable. A journey through labyrinth of questions, that are all the same question–all leading to … bird songs, tea…emptyness, and back to the beginning.
“A way a one a last a loved along the riverrun.”
There is always a way out of Suzhou… and before us, in the thick fog, supposedly there is somewhere: Jinhuashan.
16×28 Oil on canvas. Click image to view full screen.
18×28 Oil on canvas. Click image to view full screen.
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Making art — working as an artist — is hard. Emotionally difficult and endlessly confusing. It shouldn’t be.
It’s not about making art, or being an artist; its abut making art and being an artist where the structures that connect us to one another, that give us a place in the social world, are tangled and broken. Endlessly subverted. It shouldn’t be like this–but it is.
I tell myself, that it’s not my fault. It’s not something I can correct in my self. Not a bad attitude I can fix. There is no ‘right place’ for what I do, for who I am.
Profoundly depressing.
11×14 Pen & India Ink, acrylic ink, watercolor. Click image to view full screen.
14×11 Pen & Ink, Watercolor
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9×12 Pen & Ink, watercolor
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9×12 Pen & Ink, Watercolor. From curbside street detritus ( https://jacobrussellsmagicnames.com/2021/01/15/street-detritus-things-that-inspire-my-art/ )
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View more work at Saatchi Art, and on my web portfolio: ART BY WILLARD For photos on this blog, click MY ART on the right panel and scroll down.