Candlestick c. 1938

Charles Caseau made this drawing of a candlestick with graphite on paper. Look at the rendering and the shadows, the implied light source. What I find so fascinating is that Charles Caseau probably looked at the candlestick for hours. Did he have a candle in it while he was drawing it, and how did that affect how he saw it? Is it a candlestick from his house? Did he have to polish it before drawing? So many questions come to mind. I wonder about the labor involved in making something like this, and also the labor involved in depicting something like this. I think that artists are always having a conversation, and they inspire one another’s creativity throughout time, and that’s amazing.