“It seems I catch my dreams in an endless stream that only life can know what they mean. Although I can never find it, I never lose the arrow.” Rockne Krebs, October 2010, artist writings

Moon Archer, Rockne Krebs, 1974
Collection: Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia 
Reel includes the book Tracing Vision: Modern Drawings from the Georgia Museum of Art, Carol A. Nathanson (Editor), essay by Hillary Brown, 2011.

Reel on Instagram https://tinyurl.com/yu7663pr

“Moon Archer’s idea of an impossible night rainbow… has more in common with the laser art for which Krebs is best known, suggesting less the vagaries of the natural world and more man’s dominion over nature. It calls to mind the science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke’s famous saying, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” and, indeed, even the drawing is rather magical, with its play on the word “bow.” Hillary Brown, Tracing Vision: Modern Drawings from the Georgia Museum of Art

“In an exhibition catalogue for a drawing retrospective at the California Institute of Technology, [Jay] Belloli focuses on Krebs’s history as a draftsman….he drew constantly from an early age and continued to do so even as he served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Reserve. Belloli finds an analogy between the line of the laser and the line of drawing, contending that the former is ‘in essence a drawing in space.’” Hillary Brown, Tracing Vision: Modern Drawings from the Georgia Museum of Art