Vajda Lajos Dinamikus Egyensúly 1939, Tus, Papír, 90,5x63,6cm 1939

Vajda Lajos made this black ink drawing on paper in 1939. I can imagine him drawing with a fine nib pen in a flurry, cross-hatching and hatching, improvising and making up the image as he goes along. I sympathize with Vajda, trying to find some kind of dynamic equilibrium during a troubled time. He died only two years later. There is such an anxiety in this drawing, but with so much intention! The image jumps out, like a Rorschach test. You can see different things depending on your mood: an animal, a dancer, a strange creature, or something monstrous emerging from the depths. Look at how the lines are built up, layer by layer! It reminds me of automatic drawing; the kind of image making where one mark leads to another, a kind of psychic dance.