Yarns 1930

Dwight Case Sturges made "Yarns" using etching. See how the lines, like threads, weave a story of texture and light. Look at the old timers outside the Lobster shack. The hats, the waves, the brickwork. Each mark feels both precise and loose, capturing a moment like a half-remembered tale. The etching, with its network of lines, reminds me of a memory: fragmented, yet vivid. The cross-hatching that defines the figure of the man to the right, how it builds up to create this incredible sense of depth and form. It’s almost sculptural. You can almost feel the scratch of the needle, the way the artist must have worked and reworked those areas. Like the old fishermen, the artist and the artisan are one in the same here. It makes me think of James Ensor, with his love for the grotesque and the everyday. Both artists, in their own ways, remind us that art is as much about the making as it is about the seeing.