Corridor 1960

Karl Benjamin made this hard-edged painting called *Corridor*, and it's just a series of shapes, really—rectangles that meet and jut. There are greens and blues and a hot rod of red stuck on the side. I'm thinking about the moment when he applied the paint. I'm picturing him trying to get these shapes so incredibly clean. Imagine the intense concentration. I know that focus. The world shrinks down to the surface of the canvas, to the edge of a shape. I bet he really felt it in his body when he got it just right. And there’s something so generous about that perfect geometry. Look at how the colours push and pull at each other. Benjamin might have been in dialogue with other geometric abstractionists like Josef Albers or Sol LeWitt. *Corridor* isn’t just about shapes—it’s about the space between them, the relationships they form, and the way we perceive them. Painters are always working out problems and having conversations that extend beyond time and place.