By: suburbanlife

suburbanlife — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:17:45 +0000

I don’t have a huge collection, but because of my earlier training as a printmaker I have over the years amassed a modest artist print collection, specializing in woodcuts and linocuts by artists in my region whose work has grabbed me viscerally. it is a joy to look at the various works, and to see a stream of sensibility which connects them to my life over the years. The collection reveals a self who has lived in the aesthetic memes of my times, and is peculiar to the era over which I have lived. The regional nature of the collection shows what artists herabouts have considered important to put into form. When my so inherits these bits and pieces, he may or may not keep the majority, but luck would have it that he shares a love of the historical aspects of contemporary life and thought. When he adds his own compilation to it, I would love to be around to see the compilation the collection becomes. As the economics of life narrow our spheres of influence, so will what people surround themselves with show more local flavour. Maybe, eventually, the monoculture that contemporary art tends to be will Balkanize into the idiosyncracies of regionalism. I think this is a good thing. G

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By: suburbanlife