Tracing for Changes and Disappearances #32 (11 of 11) 1982

John Cage’s ‘Tracing for Changes and Disappearances #32’ is like a quiet whisper on paper, it's graphite on paper, a dance of lines. Imagine Cage, leaning over this sheet, his mind a field of possibilities. What was he thinking as he traced these shapes, letting the graphite lead him? There's a tenderness here, in the way the lines vary in weight and pressure, and how they intersect to create a sense of movement, or a map of the mind. It reminds me of Cy Twombly's scribbles, but with Cage's signature philosophical twist. It’s as if he’s capturing not just what's there, but what’s in-between, the fleeting moments. Artists borrow and build upon each other's ideas, it’s a giant conversation across time. Cage’s work is never really about the thing itself but about how we perceive it, how we listen to it. This piece is an invitation to find our own meaning, our own silence, within the lines.