I needn't say anything. Merely show. I shall purloin no valuables, appropriate no ingenious formulations. But the rags, the refuse — these I will not inventory but allow, in the only way possible, to come into their own: by making use of them.
Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project
1. Henri Matisse, 1911
The Red Studio
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
2. Alec Komaroff, from the series Outline, 2025
Exhibition view, HfG Offenbach, Germany
3. Alec Komaroff, 2025
from the series Outline
4. Karl Blossfeldt, 1928,
from Urformen der Kunst, Rijksmuseum
5. Karl Blossfeldt, Pumpkin, 1928,
from Urformen der Kunst, Rijksmuseum
6. Étienne-Jules Marey, 1886
Étienne-Jules Marey shaking a flexible rod
7. Barnett Newman
Vir Heroicus Sublimis, 1950-51
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
8. Alec Komaroff, 2025
from the series Outline
9. Ellsworth Kelly, 1973
Yellow with Red Triangle
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.