Euromaidan 2014

Alevtyna Kakhidze made this drawing, 'Euromaidan', with ink on paper. It's all about the line here, isn't it? Just one continuous, questing, meandering, ever-changing line that describes this space. The confidence to just keep going, to trust the process, that's what grabs me. It reminds me of Cy Twombly's line, but more diagrammatic, like an architectural drawing. There's something really immediate and intimate about ink on paper; you see every little wobble, every change in pressure, every thought process as it happened. Kakhidze's decision to leave the work as a simple black and white drawing really emphasizes the rawness of the space. I keep coming back to the line that snakes its way across the scene; how it ties together, a bit like Ariadne's thread, all the disparate elements of the drawing. Kakhidze is an interesting artist whose work I've been following for a while. Like her other works, this piece refuses to settle, but is open and full of potential, rather than closed.