Don't You Need To? If You Have To?
Don't You Need To? If You Have To?
Don't You Need To? If You Have To?
ArtistSpencer Dormitzer

Don't You Need To? If You Have To?

Date2017
MediumInk on paper
DimensionsPaper Size: 30 × 22 in. (76.2 × 55.9 cm)
Credit LineDC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Art Bank Collection
Object numberDCCAH2018.008.3
ClassificationsDrawings
Locations
  • District Department of Transportation (250 M Street SE)
DescriptionSpencer Dormitzer’s drawings focus on creating difficult, intricate, broken narratives connected to a simple image—a circle, square, rectangle—with marks of scribbles, the feeling of hair, or the sense of being there. Layers of complex characters overlay each other, forming a frenetic conversation among themselves. The titles of these three pieces were inspired by a conversation between the artist and his five-year-old son, during which the boy paused mid-discussion, sat in deep thought, and exclaimed very calmly and confidently, “You don’t need to… If you have to…”

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