All At Once

The Story

In “All at Once,” I aimed to capture the dynamic energy of multiple fall gardens colliding in a vibrant, chaotic dance. The white luminous areas within the drawing are as dense as the forms that surround them, a lesson I learned from Rembrandt’s ink work in grad school at Yale. For me, this work embodies the suddenness of nature’s flourish, where beauty emerges from what seems like disorder, possibly even death - unveiling an unseen harmony within.

I was reading Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies the other day and one line from the First Elegy resonates in this drawing:

"For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are barely able to endure..." For this drawing is almost tearing itself apart - and yet there is a power, an invisible power, that holds it all together. What is that invisible force for you? LMK! Thanks.   

Reference: https://poetrysociety.org/poems/the-first-elegy

The First Elegy" from THE POETRY OF RILKE: BILINGUAL EDITION by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated and edited by Edward Snow. Translation © 2009 by Edward Snow. Reprinted by permission of North Point Press, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. "The First Elegy" originally published in the volume THE DUINO ELEGIES.

Details

• Original artwork, 2024
• Ink and pencil on acid free matte paper
• 8.5 x 11 inches
• Unframed

Suggested Framing

• Thin white, black, or gray wood frame
• We highly recommend UV protected glass to preserve the integrity of your artwork from prolonged light exposure
• We recommend museum glass that will not shatter to protect for future generations

Authenticity

• Artwork is signed by the artist Thomas Bosket