True's Window 1971

Nicholas Brice Dean made this print, True's Window, in 1971, and it’s like peeking into a secret world. The green ink, almost a monochrome, gives it this enveloping, dreamlike quality. You can tell it's a print, right? The way the ink sits slightly on the surface of the paper. There's this path, carved out of the woods, that leads your eye straight to a window of bright yellow. It's like this little explosion of color amid all that green. And within that yellow, there are figures – barely there, but undeniably present. They remind me of die-cut shapes. That tension between the graphic and the representational. It makes you wonder what’s waiting at the end of that path. Dean is playing with color, but also with what it means to reveal and conceal, a conversation explored by artists like Josef Albers, but here, it's less about geometry and more about mystery. Like a promise or a warning, maybe?