[no title] 1978

Curator: This enigmatic piece is by John Piper, from his time exploring abstraction and collage. Its dimensions are approximately 50 by 70 centimeters. Editor: It feels like a half-remembered dream, fractured and vivid all at once. Curator: Piper often layered screen printing, collage, and painting. This one shows how he liked to experiment with industrial processes. The overlapping imagery might reference the blitz. Editor: The red scribbles seem like raw, exposed nerves against those stark figures. I wonder if he felt that sense of fragmentation himself. Curator: His work post-war was really engaged with reconstruction, both physical and social. Editor: It leaves me feeling unsettled, as if something significant is just out of reach. Curator: It's an artwork that really shows how Piper interrogated modern techniques in the service of expression. Editor: A fragmented beauty, I guess. Worth pondering.