Indecision 1952 - 1955

Edmond Casarella made this print, *Indecision,* maybe in the 1960s with what looks like bold strokes of black ink, punctuated by geometric shapes in teal against a warm tan background. I wonder about that title. What hesitations, revisions, and second guesses were happening while Casarella worked on it? I can imagine him circling and hovering, a bit like the marks on the paper. The shapes pile up, echoing forms, but not quite resolving. There's a tension between the flatness of the surface and the illusion of depth, like looking into a complicated machine. And then I realize the beauty of the indecision; the way one mark calls forth another, building into a suspended state. It reminds me of other artists who embraced the unfinished, like Guston, or even some of Goya’s etchings. They remind us that a work of art is never truly finished but remains open to interpretation. A record of an artist’s process, a conversation across time.