Untitled 2022

This Untitled work was created by EtchingRoom1, a twenty-first century artist, with what looks like ink on paper. It’s all about lines here; the artist has worked over each individual brick in the post office with a fine cross-hatching. It’s funny how this intensity of observation, this dedication to the process, creates an image that’s totally unreal. It looks like a memory of a dream of a post office. Maybe it’s something to do with the fact that the people are drawn in a different way, like paper dolls, and the blue pen marks floating in the top right corner are very playful. I love the guy walking his dog – it's like a stage set. This reminds me of some of the work of William Kentridge, who also thinks of drawing as a kind of performance. In the end, art isn’t about something, it *is* something.