Vajda Lajos House Walls in Szentendre, 1937, Pencil on Paper, 22.5x31.5cm 1937

Vajda Lajos made this pencil drawing of house walls in Szentendre in 1937, and it’s not just a picture; it's like an architect's daydream. Look at how the lines crisscross and connect, almost as if the house is being pieced together, or maybe it’s falling apart. It's all in pencil, but it feels like more; there are these stippled bits around the edges, adding a kind of texture to the flat paper, which feels really tactile. There's something about the simplicity and the geometry that makes you think. The little window on the right is just a square within a square, but it's a reminder that even the simplest shapes can hold so much. It makes me think of artists like Agnes Martin, who found endless possibilities in the grid, and reminds us that the meaning in art comes from how we look, and what we bring to it.