Brooks Salzwedel

Published May 7, 2009 by Graham

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What you’re looking at is graphite trapped between layers of resin– carbon-based artifice entombed within the unforgiving sands of time. This is the work of Brooks Salzwedel, and it all seems to take place within the purgatorial swirling mists of a coniferous forest. Coupled with the comatose canopies of somnolent saplings, the only inhabitants of this cold gray place are towers of heavy-duty machinery that’s been left to rot by a populace long since vanished, Cormac McCarthy-style. The effect is simultaneously spooky and bewitching.

Salzwedel will be presenting new work at the Tinlark Gallery is Los Angeles, in a show opening Saturday, May 16th.

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  1. pooper says:

    How silly! I don’t know this artwork! Thanks for letting me know. I hope I’m not posting too much on ya’lls site. I am doing a fast and can’t sleep. I am finding all of the things you post good for the brain.

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