Jon Sarkin

'Outsider Art Legend' - The Boston Globe.
アール・ブリュット / Art Brut
Managed by the official Jon Sarkin (1953-2024) Estate.
May all living things be happy.

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"by writing "fish" over + over, this drawing is transformed into a fish. i can't say i fully understand this, but there's much i don't."

— Jon Sarkin

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"she had eyes like verdant pools... pools that i'd seen when i went to cambodia. her teeth were the color of those clouds."

— Jon Sarkin

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"hopper was un-un-un-uncanny in his ability to capture the existential nature of life. when there are people in his art, they don't connect."

— Jon Sarkin

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"what the "hey" am i bibbli about? i don't know."

— Jon Sarkin

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"brancusi, cultivating an image as a blackbearded ascetic, wore simple clothes, lived alone & cooked his own food... while turning his favorite subjects into stupefyingly beautiful abstraxions."

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"erase self. importance."

— Jon Sarkin

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"how can i describe her chest? the answer is i can't. similes or metaphors or whatever fail miserably."

— Jon Sarkin

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View the full catalog at https://t.co/RpMN9vg6pt

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"seems no matter what choice we make, it's questionable, y'know?"

— Jon Sarkin

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Payment note: the estate now accepts Zcash and bank transfer at any amount, for collectors who value discretion.

Why → https://t.co/FHwGG0wqNG

ZECEARLY = 10% off Zcash, June 30.

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Announcing the 2026 Summer Selection from the Jon Sarkin estate.

Eighteen pieces, $900–$75,000.

https://t.co/RpMN9vgEf1 🧵

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JS-2023-1356: Macbeth's "out, out, brief candle" hand-lettered into "his pons, his medulla oblongata." Shakespeare improvised into anatomy.

arker on cardboard album sleeve, $1,200.

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"20,000 roads i went down, & they all led me straight back home to you."

— Jon Sarkin

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"do you feel that you have no feelings? that life is more than it seems?"

— Jon Sarkin

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"what was i doing? and where was i?? when i was a kid, in the humid new jersey night, fireflies in my front yard."

— Jon Sarkin

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"but i am diverting from my narrations."

— Jon Sarkin

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