Celebration 2005

Will Barnet made this print, Celebration, by who-knows-what means, at who-knows-when. There’s a real joy in how the colors collide – that earthy ochre, set against blues that verge on grey. It feels like a celebration of shapes bumping into each other, not quite fitting but making a new kind of sense together. I love how the materiality speaks. You can almost feel the grain of the stone or plate, each mark a testament to the hand that guided it. Take the figures at the top right – are they dancing, praying, or just being? Their forms are open, porous, inviting our projections and empathy. This piece reminds me of Joan Miró, that playfulness with abstraction, a search for primal forms that speak to something deeper. It's like Barnet's saying, let's find the party in the everyday, in the shapes and colors that surround us. It’s not about answers, but about keeping the conversation going.