Execution 1960

Connor Everts made this drawing, Execution, with ink, covering the paper with a dark, smudgy wash, and using the white of the paper to give form to these bodies. Look at the line work, like quick scratches building up figures, caught mid-struggle. I can imagine Everts, in his studio, wrestling with the image, trying to give form to something so violent. What does it mean to try to make something so difficult into something beautiful? Maybe he was thinking about Goya, or the history of war and violence, and trying to reckon with it. It's a reminder that artists are always in conversation with each other, across time, trying to make sense of the world and find new ways to represent it. And ultimately, that’s what art is all about – an ongoing exchange of ideas, inspiring each other’s creativity. It’s like a visual jam session, where artists riff off each other’s work, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.