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Bruce Botts - |
Large Etchings |
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As we peruse the artwork,the semiabstract vibrations aggrandize in a readily detectable tremor of a furry sisal rope under the soles of the rope walker in “Fear of heights”.
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"My Wild Life"
"32 x 48" |
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"A Modest Proposal"
32"x 48" |
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The character of the drawing is intensified by the “butchery” implicit in Bott’s diptychoid composition. The image is hewn through the middle, disregarding unity of torsos and limbs alike e.g. “Italian Zookeeper”
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"Italian Zookeeper"
30" x 36" |
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"Fox wedding"
30" x 36"
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“An Easy Decision”, “The Shepherds Apprentice”. Bodies are dismembered by the sharp-edged territories of each zinc plate as if proclaiming eternal estrangement between two souls.
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"The Shepards Apprentice"
32' x 48" |
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"An Easy Desicion"
18" x 48" |
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Yet their limbs subtend the physical gap between two parts of the image to reassure us of, at least, temporal conjugation, not dissimilar to a reproductive act... |
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"That Feeling of Adventure"
24" x 48" |
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"The Famous Boating Party"
24"x 36" |
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