Figure with a dog 1964

This is a Jules Perahim, made in ink, and it's called "Figure with a Dog." Just look at that skeletal figure, so upright, so sure of itself, perched there as if life’s a sideshow. I see a dialogue happening between the figure and that looming rectangular presence. It almost feels like an argument. The ink splatters around them feel like unspoken words, or maybe the residue of some cosmic event. I imagine Perahim, in his studio, dipping his brush in ink, letting it bleed onto the paper, surrendering to chance. You can see the drips. He is drawing from some inner world. That line connecting the figure's hand to the rectangle – is it a lifeline? Or a tightrope act? Or maybe just a conversation between two forms that keep each other company, like the way painters have been doing forever. Painting isn't about answers; it’s about keeping the questions alive, letting them breathe on the surface.