Metallurgy I

A study in restraint and material intelligence, Metallurgy I by John Richard transforms paper into something that reads as elemental and enduring. The nearly square format — just under twenty-five inches in each direction — gives the composition a meditative, almost architectural stillness that rewards proximity. Conceived within the John Richard collection, it speaks to a sensibility that finds richness not in excess, but in the quiet authority of a single well-considered surface.