The Highway, 2011
Financial newspaper, archival inkjet and acrylic on canvas
150 x 200 x 5 cm
59 x 78 1/2 x 2 in
59 x 78 1/2 x 2 in
The Highway exemplifies a Kantian ideal of a 'Sublime landscape': overwhelmingly powerful and unforgiving, indifferent to the fate of humans. The work can be placed within the long tradition of...
The Highway exemplifies a Kantian ideal of a 'Sublime landscape': overwhelmingly powerful and unforgiving, indifferent to the fate of humans. The work can be placed within the long tradition of imaging the end of the world, and displays a certain kinship with the Romantic landscapes of John Martin and Caspar David Friedrich.