Anchor and Sky   Preface   A quarter of the way into the 21st century, and with perilous current events looming large –events which seem to defy historical context -- how do artists anchor themselves in past practices while also looking towards the sky, the future, tenuous as it may be? In many ways, art can be an aesthetic anchor. It provides roots that tell of personal history, of homeland, even of the grand narrative of pictorial history. From the viewers’ perspective, it