Tarff 1931

David Young Cameron made "Tarff," a landscape print, most likely with etching and drypoint. Look at how the whole scene is built up from a network of tiny lines, a real testament to mark-making as a process. These marks are not trying to trick us, to create an illusion of depth. Instead, they build up this world using texture, color, and surface. See how the light flickers over the water, created by the lightest touches of the artist's hand. It's as if the artist is thinking aloud, one tiny mark at a time. Cameron's work reminds me of Whistler, another master of the subtle and suggestive. Both artists understood that art is not about capturing a scene perfectly, but about inviting the viewer into a world of feeling and imagination. "Tarff" is a landscape, yes, but it's also a mood, an emotion, a fleeting moment captured in a web of delicate lines.