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Here, Jean Fautrier, with strokes of blue and grey, renders a landscape that stirs the depths of memory. The horizon, fragmented and blurred, echoes the symbolic weight of horizons in art across epochs - boundaries between worlds, states of mind, life and death, constantly crossed and re-crossed. Consider Caspar David Friedrich’s lonely wanderers silhouetted against vast skies. Like Friedrich, Fautrier evokes a sense of sublime solitude. However, here, the familiar symbolism of a landscape, as a reflection of human emotion, breaks down into abstraction. We are left with the echo of a landscape, a memory of a world, as if glimpsed through the veil of consciousness. The subconscious yearns to find recognizable forms but can’t grasp them. The painting evokes feelings of melancholy, inviting a profound emotional experience. This non-linear progression of symbols—from realistic landscapes to abstract interpretations—highlights how we are perpetually searching for meaning, imposing our emotional and psychological states onto the world around us, as we continuously search for connection to our past.