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and plants. He has also composed numerous drawings that are more geometric, geologic, or architectural in nature. He does not draw exact likenesses of the objects, nor is he interested in exact renditions. Instead, he draws the object from memory, working through multiple variations of the initial subject. As was described in a wall text accompanying Young's work in a 2015 exhibition; â(Youngâs) precisely-rendered illustrations could be of the chicken bones that he keeps in a glass jar, or the acorns falling from the tree outside his barbershop window. However, in Youngâs drawings, they become intriguing images that dance and float on the surface of the paper, somewhere between the real world and fantasy land".
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and discarded cardboard that he found at job sites and through his neighborhood. He would also draw on a smaller scale in spiral notebooks, and, later in his career, in artistsâ sketchbooks. His subject matter is usually inspired by detailed elements from the natural world: trees, branches, bones,
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