Composition with rectangles 1969

Hryhorii Havrylenko made this ‘Composition with Rectangles’ with a pencil, or maybe it was ink, who knows? The process feels a bit like mapping, or building with blocks. The thing about lines is they’re never just lines; they’re about edges, boundaries, and connections. Look at the way these lines aren’t totally straight, they kind of waver. That wiggle gives it life, you know? And how the composition isn't perfectly symmetrical but it really wants to be, it's like something is just about to resolve. Look at the long vertical line, not quite centered, with that slight narrowing as it descends, like a door ajar, or a path that narrows into the distance. It reminds me a bit of Agnes Martin's grids, but looser, more human. It's like a conversation between precision and intuition, control and letting go. I love work like this because it embraces the messy, uncertain nature of artmaking and seeing.