#okay ik this is just a sketch for a painting & he probably just tore it out bc he wasn't happy w it but the fact that like. Gone like that.

[fluentisonus]

hi hello can we talk about this page of turner's sketchbook which they think is a study of lot and his daughters fleeing the destruction of sodom & how the page itself is straight up cut away behind them. because the physical hole in the paper is doing insane things for me. normally in a painting of this story you'd see flames or falling buildings or something in the background but here there's instead this horrifying emptiness in the material itself. like the paper world they exist in is literally dissolving away behind them. or what they don't see it just too awful to comprehend. insane

#TURNER'S USE OF ABSENCE DOES IT AGAIN #okay ik this is just a sketch for a painting & he probably just tore it out bc he wasn't happy w it but the fact that like. Gone like that. #thoughts #turnerposting #<- i was actually looking for a specific drawing of a ship but. glad i found this one