Blue-04 1916

Georgia O'Keeffe made this watercolor on paper, "Blue-04", and it just sings with simplicity. I see how the deep blues bloom and blend into the paper, a dance of pigment and water. It’s all about the process, the give and take of applying color and watching it find its own way. The texture here is so subtle, you can almost feel the grain of the paper. That top shape, the way it bleeds downwards, it’s like watching a storm cloud unfurl. There’s a real physicality to it, a sense of the hand and the water guiding the paint. Those bold strokes at the bottom, they’re so direct, like quick, decisive breaths. O'Keefe's work reminds me of Agnes Martin's distilled forms. Both found a kind of visual poetry through their minimalist approach. Ultimately, art thrives on ambiguity, inviting us to find our own stories within these simple shapes.