Denib El Delphini 1965

Paul Feeley made this sculpture "Denib El Delphini" from painted wood, and what strikes me first is the way it plays with flatness and depth. The colors are really direct: blue, red, and white. So American! And the edges are super clean, which makes me wonder about the hand of the artist. Did he obsess over these lines? Or did he let them be a little imperfect? I'm guessing he was cool with it. The shape is a kind of butterfly or hourglass form, repeated and joined to create a three-dimensional object. I'm thinking, is it about symmetry? Or about disrupting symmetry? There's a lot of implied movement and tension in this piece. It makes me think of the work of artists like Carmen Herrera, who also explored the possibilities of geometric abstraction, but in a totally different way. It's interesting how artists keep responding to each other across time, isn't it?