Trąbka do słuchania krzesła Pana Kantora 2019

Lech Jankowski made this drawing, titled "Trąbka do słuchania krzesła Pana Kantora", with graphite, and it feels like a quiet proposition about how we can look at things. The artist has coaxed so much out of pencil here, it's really something. There's this strange, diffused light, almost like a dream. Look at the soft rendering of the bulbous forms, they give the image a really ambiguous feeling. The textures are incredible too. See how the chair is more clearly defined, and the parallel lines at the top contrast with the fuzzy ground? Even though the tonal range is narrow, the mark making shifts your attention around. The drawing has this push-pull effect, between the clear, descriptive lines of the chair and the more ambiguous space around it. Jankowski's image reminds me a bit of Giorgio Morandi's still life paintings, where simple objects become stand-ins for complex ideas. It feels like Jankowski is asking us to reconsider the relationship between seeing and understanding, or maybe even hearing! What do you think?