Blue Calcite Eroded Lucius Verus Drawing, 2021
Colored pencil and acrylic paint on paper, 11 x 17 in.
Inspired by Daniel Arsham’s Blue Calcite Eroded Lucius Verus, 2019 piece. Made of hydrostone and eroding blue calcite, Arsham creates eroded relics rooted in classical sculpture. Arsham is a rising artist whose uchronic aesthetics revolve around his concept of fictional archaeology. Working in sculpture, architecture, drawing and film, he creates and crystallizes ambiguous in-between spaces or situations, and further stages what he refers to as future relics of the present. This drawn interpolation was done in school, where we were assigned to replicate a “masterpiece” artwork created by a famous artist. While others were drawn towards van Gogh or Rembrandt, I went a different direction with Arsham.
