A new biography of the art critic John Berger suggests why I've always been sympathetic to his writings. The author Joshua Sperling writes "Painting, for Berger, was rooted in the experience of sight, and sight was rooted in the local and particular. Visibility takes place somewhere." The somewhere in this small painting is the middle of the incline of North Holden Street in North Adams, MA. 6x8 oil on panel.
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