[title not known] Verso: Sketches of a Hand and ?Unidentified Subject 

Editor: Here we have a sketch by John Flaxman, titled "Verso: Sketches of a Hand and ?Unidentified Subject." The small scale feels very intimate. What do you see in this piece? Curator: I see Flaxman grappling with representation in a rapidly changing world. The unfinished nature hints at the societal pressures to conform to certain artistic ideals, while the subjects themselves – a hand, a figure – speak to the body as a site of labor and identity. Editor: That's a perspective I hadn't considered. Thanks! Curator: Of course! It's important to remember that art is always in conversation with its context.