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Remembering Artists From Another Time: John Piper

British Artist John Piper in his Studio: Henley on the Thames. Photo: Richard Schulman.

H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine and more remind my mind of past and future eras: My eyes are heard lifting time listlessly with a lilt: Some things are meant to age. I remember the tectonic shift when the (YBAs)Young British Artists- – emerged like newborn embryos at work: Raging through England and other nations: 

My feet have always been steeped in the ideal marriages of antiquity and the flow of visual ideas that perform in our modern days. I have witnessed the cosmopolitan mingle with street urchins like torrential transformative transfusions of captures. My main interests lied in other generations–generations past.

We drove from London through English folklore: The Thames slightly seen between the trees around the M4 route: Hillsides and electric silences felt in every glance: Histories pointed ahead: The Royal Family omnipresence seemed near “Windsor Court is just past........

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