Serie 26D, No. 1-3 3-1, 3-1 1-3 1979

This dot matrix of color by Julio Le Parc must have been an exercise in systematic seeing. Imagine the slow build, one circle at a time. I’m thinking about how the hand and the eye negotiate when you're locked into a tight structure like this, how the grid both supports and constrains. I want to understand how a painter thinks within such a rigid framework, like a musician improvising inside a strict time signature. Le Parc seems interested in the sensations that arise through repetition and variation. I like the way the circles are not perfect—they wobble and breathe, like slightly out-of-sync pixels. It reminds me that even within the most precise systems, there is always room for the hand, for the glitch, for the human. And in those imperfections, we find the unexpected. It's a reminder that art is not just about what we see, but how we see, and how we feel when we see.