25. The Same as the Last, but Darker at the Bottom than the Top 

Curator: Isn't Alexander Cozens' "25. The Same as the Last, but Darker at the Bottom than the Top" just the most perfectly wry title? Editor: It’s so minimal, almost bleak, yet those clouds offer a strange sort of comfort. It's like staring into the abyss, but a fluffy, manageable abyss. Curator: Cozens was obsessed with skies, using these types of drawings almost as generative prompts. It feels like he's codifying the sublime into a system. Editor: And those horizontal lines representing the sky, almost like musical bars, give the impression of the sky as something measured and known. Is this about control, or is it about finding peace in nature's constant flux? Curator: Perhaps both, in that uniquely 18th-century way. It’s all very poetic and rational at once. Editor: This tiny image holds more than meets the eye, doesn’t it? It reminds me to look again.