Ketshin, Poland 1991

Petros Malayan painted "Ketshin, Poland" at an unknown date with what looks like watercolor or gouache. I really feel the artist’s mood here. It's a dark, shadowy scene. Look how the towers emerge from a palette of muted grays, greens, and browns. It's easy to imagine him hunched over the paper, trying to get the architecture just right. The brushstrokes are visible, almost like a child's drawing, full of tentative exploration and an attempt to capture the essence of the place. I wonder what he thought about when he painted it. Maybe he was thinking about the great painters like Cezanne trying to find something new to say about the world around him. Maybe he felt as if he could only scratch the surface of the place that was "Ketshin, Poland." So much to see, so little time!