Candlestand c. 1936

Jack Staloff made this drawing, "Candlestand," with pencil and charcoal. It’s cool to see these different elevations of the same object. It's not quite technical drawing, not quite representational art, either. It's somewhere in between. I wonder about the guy who made this. I think it was a guy. Maybe he was sitting at his desk, in his woodshop, looking over the object, trying to figure out how to represent it, how to give it its due. He might be wondering how to explain to somebody else how it works or maybe he was just really into candlestands. What I like about it, is that it's just somebody looking hard at something. All of art is about that, about one person looking at something, and then trying to get someone else to see it that way too. He's in conversation with all the other artists who’ve ever looked hard at anything and then tried to draw it!