An Ever Recurring Event 1984

Oleksandr Aksinin made *An Ever Recurring Event* using what looks like watercolor and ink; a really interesting combo. You know, sometimes the best art comes from mixing it up, not sticking to one thing. What strikes me is the rawness of the surface. It’s not trying to hide anything. The colors are laid down flat, but they interact in such a way that they vibrate, like the red and green in the background. The tree itself feels a bit like a diagram, especially with those coils around it, but the way Aksinin let the paint bleed, or didn’t quite fill in the lines, gives it this real, human quality. The little marks, the dots and scribbles, they aren’t perfect. It's like he is pulling us in. This reminds me a bit of Paul Klee, that playfulness, but with a totally different kind of edge. It embraces ambiguity and has many meanings.