Untitled 1955

Afro made this untitled watercolor painting, sometime before 1976, with an approach to artmaking that's all about the journey. The material aspects are really interesting here – texture, color, surface, the physicality of the medium. The paint looks thin, transparent in places, and then opaque in others, you can almost feel the water moving across the page. Look at the dark marks at the bottom, like ink blots, and see how they anchor the whole composition. Those little splatters and drips show that Afro wasn't afraid to let the paint do its thing. This reminds me a bit of Joan Miró's playful surrealism, or maybe even some of Cy Twombly's scribbled energy. Art is always a conversation, right? A give and take across time and space.