Fleurs séchées 1978

Cricorps made this piece, Fleurs séchées, we don't know when, or with what, but just look at how the artist is thinking through a process of image making. There is a tension between flatness and depth here. We seem to be looking at an object, a shrub maybe, in a pot, yet there is something cartoonish and flat about the way the colors and shapes sit on the surface. There's a lot going on with line in this picture, the artist has outlined everything. It reminds me of Guston, particularly his work later in his career, where he was wrestling with questions about figuration and the role of the artist in society. This piece, like Guston, seems to embrace ambiguity and multiple interpretations over fixed meanings.