True's Window 1971

Nicholas Brice Dean made this limited-edition print, *True’s Window*, sometime around 1971, and what really sings is that big, central slab of yellow! Just picture Dean, right, methodically carving out the matrix for the green undergrowth, and the path receding into the distance. Then, boom, he lays down that unapologetic rectangle of sunshine yellow right in the middle. It’s like he’s saying, “Here’s where the magic happens, folks.” The contrast is electric and it really makes me wonder about what Dean was thinking about during the process. The forest feels like a metaphor for all the paths we don’t take, you know, the what-ifs and could-have-beens. Then that yellow patch, like a portal, offering a glimpse of other potential realities. Dean isn’t just showing us a landscape, he’s making a space for possibility. And isn't that what art is supposed to do anyway?