CHRISTOPHER WILMARTH (1943-1987)

"Almost to the end, Wilmarth walks up gingerly to the light, finding its last traces like a deer feeding solemnly in a single clearing with houses all around. There is that feeling of unquenchable thirst and the smallness of the last resource. For instance, in Baptiste Longing (Blue) — with its allusion to the old French movie Les Enfants du Paradis, whose hero Baptiste watches as his love, Garance, is swept away in a crowd, never seen by him again — one head is entirely gone, a scar left in the bronze, while the other glows its literal and figurative blue."
—S. H. Madoff, "Light and Gravity: The Art and Times of Christopher Wilmarth," in S. H. Madoff, N. Milford and E. Saywell, Christopher Wilmarth: Light and Gravity, Princeton, 2004, pp. 103 and 106