Untitled 1982

This is a print by Mel Bochner, and, well, it's untitled, so it's from sometime and somewhere, made with ink on paper. Looking at the image, I imagine Bochner building this thing up, line by line, almost like a scaffolding. I see these tense geometric shapes, like boxes that are connected and twisting. He's really good at using these lines to create a sense of depth and movement. I can almost feel the artist’s hand at work, scratching away, trying to find the structure within the chaos. It reminds me a bit of Sol LeWitt's structures or even some of the early cubist paintings. You can almost see how one form informs the next. And that push and pull is how artists keep the conversation going, each one building on the ideas of those who came before, right? Each mark, each line, becomes a question and the beginning of an answer.