A Wooded Landscape; Schematic Sky 

Editor: Here we have Alexander Cozens' "A Wooded Landscape; Schematic Sky." I’m struck by the grid underneath the drawing. What do you see in this piece? Curator: The grid emphasizes Cozens' systematic approach, but think about landscape in the 18th century, the English countryside as a site of enclosure, of land ownership. How might this grid speak to those power dynamics inherent in the very act of depicting landscape? Editor: So, the grid isn't just a technique; it's a statement about control? Curator: Exactly. And consider the 'schematic sky' – is it a celebration of nature's freedom, or a subtle reminder of imposed order? What does that tension mean today? Editor: I never thought about landscape like that before. It's more political than I realized.