Trees and Rocks above a Pool 

Editor: This is Alexander Cozens' "Trees and Rocks above a Pool." It’s small, almost pocket-sized. The monochrome sepia tones give it a dreamlike quality. What do you make of its simplified forms? Curator: It's like a memory, isn't it? Cozens was known for his "blot" technique, using abstract shapes to inspire landscape compositions. Did he capture a place, or a feeling about wild places? I wonder if his goal was to evoke a sense of sublime rather than replicate reality? Editor: Sublimity through blots. It feels very modern, somehow. Thanks! Curator: Indeed! The seeds of abstraction hidden in plain sight. My pleasure!