Skt. Adolf,=Ringen=Hall 1922

Adolf Wölfli made "Skt. Adolf,=Ringen=Hall" using colored pencil, building it up layer by layer. It looks like he was trying to trap some inner vision. The texture here is all about the colored pencil on paper, a real down-to-earth medium that Wölfli transforms into something else entirely. Look at the obsessive detail in the repeated shapes – each one slightly different, each color carefully chosen. It's like he's creating his own language. And those faces peeking out from within the forms? Are they watching us, or are we watching them? There's something about this piece that reminds me of Hilma af Klint, but with a darker, more manic edge. Like Klint, Wölfli was tapping into something beyond the visible world. Art, for me, isn't about answers. It's about the questions we ask, and the spaces we create in the asking. Wölfli's piece is a perfect example of that.