Meditation 1947

Glen Alps created this print entitled 'Meditation', with a muted palette of grays and blacks. I imagine the artist working line by line, hatching across the surface, building up tone and texture, and searching for the light in the darkness. It's like the artist is a kind of stage director, placing these figures together in an intimate setting, almost like they are caught in a shared moment of contemplation. I wonder what kind of conversation they are having? The texture of the print gives a tactile quality to the scene, as though you could run your fingers over the paper. Alps shares something with artists like Käthe Kollwitz, who also explored themes of human emotion with a limited color range. Artists are always in conversation, aren't they? Each work builds on what came before, echoing and answering in a way that makes painting feel timeless and boundless. There’s a certain ambiguity here, a quietness that allows for multiple interpretations and keeps the conversation going.