Eye to Eye, Digital Collage, 2011
Sandys has a natural talent for line. Her line can sing through space
or summon up a concrete form, being at once powerful and effortlessly
fluid, like the line achieved by a skater or a dancer, and, as with a
skater or a dancer, you might prefer not to dwell upon the amount of
effort with which such effortlessness has been achieved.
Such seemingly effortless, yet ingenious, attention to ���the line��� is
evident in the somewhat stoic aspects of Cycladic art, in which I
find great revelations about art history. Often employing clear and
simple lines, these statues depict the moment just before a kinetic
state. These forms convey much about anticipation. In Sandys���
Carrara marble sculptures, there is the wit, the decoration and the
visual drama, answers over the millennia to her Cycladic artistic
forebears. I like to think that Edward Weston, in his love of that
which is foursquare front and center of clean line, as depicted by
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