Criticism

Soren Vale

Soren Vale writes about colour, labour and looking slowly. He is suspicious of masterpieces and fond of unfinished edges. He believes a critic should admit when a pigment has defeated them.

Pieces: 2
Issues: 04, 02

Pieces

Criticism · Issue 04

Slow Looking, Badly Paid

Soren Vale

On the labour of attention, and why a critic who lingers should say so without pretending the lingering is free.

Excerpt · 11 min in print

Criticism · Issue 02

The Blue That Would Not Dry

Soren Vale

Soren Vale on a series of seaside studies whose pigment stayed tacky, and what an unfinished surface asks of the person looking.

Excerpt · 12 min in print

Soren Vale

Pieces

Slow Looking, Badly Paid

The Blue That Would Not Dry

A short note when the new issue is set.

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