His death has rendered his work utterly clear, like the water he wrote of, the water that wanted to live.
And what would the Puritans make of the tiny, highly worked, utterly mysterious object of gold and coral that turns out to be a child's teething toy?
For one thing, we planned to shoot a film about our travels, and Omar had persuaded me the secret to good film-making was to begin work utterly unprepared.
His 86-year-old grandson, John Cone, accused Oates of "trying to cash in on grandfather's memory", and the biographer William Pritchard, author of Frost: A Literary Life Reconsidered, dubbed the work "utterly preposterous and quite distasteful", according to New Republic.
He made the film as an independent filmmaker, putting some of his own money (earned by acting) into the film, and got some money from a private backer, but working utterly outside the system of German filmmaking.
Knowing that such violence, real as it is, doesn't have an effect on a real person does change the power of the art work, utterly — at least it did for me.
This is a gentle, thoughtful and subtly profound work, utterly without pretension or pyrotechnics, by a Japanese poet in his 60s, and – I am almost inclined to say "and yet" – The Guest Cat has been a runaway success in France and America; it's also been catching on in the UK, and its appearance in this column means that I wish it all the best, too.
Another nine houses should be completed in March, leaving the island free of building works and utterly tranquil - perfect for a beachfront massage, romantic supper under astonishing skies or wildlife-spotting excursions.
While his contemporaries struggled to regain the gestural spontaneity of children's doodles, Hilton – in works of utterly compelling maturity – brought it off again and again, pouring out images of deceptive innocence: cheeky nudes, bright red sailing boats, circus elephants and blazing suns.
Marclay's work is utterly different.
