JS-2023-1356 Tree the substrate's edges and surface

the substrate's edges and surface texture left visible as part of the work

Sarkin frequently worked through art-historical figures by repeating their names until the act of inscription becomes the subject

now offered through the estate

A long-form text drawing in marker on a recycled cardboard album sleeve

A quote ("only the fact that it was recorded has saved it from total obscurity") emerges from a repeating ground of "SUCCESS AS AN ORIGINAL PERFORMANCE

JS-2023-1356 Tree the substrate's edges and surfaceA dense hand lettered passage built around Macbeth's "out, out, brief candle" soliloquy, riffing on Shakespeare and improvising an anatomy ("his pons, his medulla oblongata") into a tragicomic narrative voice. Drawn on a recycled cardboard album sleeve. Signed. Authenticated by The Jon Sarkin Estate. Ships from Gloucester, MA.