Where Do We Go? 1919 - 1920

Kerr Eby made this image, *Where Do We Go?*, sometime during his lifetime using monochrome drawing. Look closely, and you'll notice the artist created a landscape with a palette of muted, grayish-black tones, reminiscent of charcoal. I think he must have been really moved by what he saw. There's a somber quality to this piece, a dense, heavy feeling conjured through closely-knit marks. You can sense the weight of the soldiers' packs, the dampness of the ground, and the overall feeling of exhaustion and uncertainty. It's like Eby knew the only way to portray the weight of war was with a kind of dark density, pressing down on the viewer as it must have pressed down on those soldiers. He probably looked at painters like Goya, who also understood how to use darkness to convey the horrors of conflict. In the end, maybe it's not about finding a single meaning but allowing ourselves to feel the weight and uncertainty that Eby captured in those densely layered strokes.