d-composition
Here the grid is a rhythm. I keep returning to this thought, because people often assume that geometric abstraction is cold, controlled, intellectually remote.
But rhythm is the opposite of coldness. Rhythm is what the body knows before the mind catches up.
I think of John Cage, who wrote music that opens the mind to the divine influences. He understood silence not as absence but as the most demanding presence of all.
The windows in this painting are that silence.
dott-dott
When I place a window in a painting, I am making a hole, but not removing something. I am adding a kind of gravity. The eye circles it, returns to it, anchors itself around it. I found an echo of this in John Cage’s Stones, a piece made by simply placing stones on paper and circling around them. He was not filling space. He was framing attention.
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