Fifty Days at Iliam. Shades of Eternal Night 1978

Cy Twombly made 'Fifty Days at Iliam. Shades of Eternal Night' with simple marks of graphite and delicate washes of blue. It reminds me that artmaking is a process of layering and revealing, of adding and subtracting, a dance between intention and accident. The textures here are so subtle, almost like whispers on paper. The graphite feels soft, smudged, as if Twombly gently coaxed the image into existence. Those blues create a hazy depth, like looking into a distant, dreamlike horizon. Look at the way he scrawled 'Shades of Eternal Night' – it's like the words are dissolving into the very atmosphere of the piece. It makes me think of other artists who embraced a similarly raw, intuitive approach, like Joan Miró, but in Twombly, there’s a unique vulnerability. His work invites you to fill in the blanks, to bring your own experiences and associations to the canvas. Ultimately, it's a reminder that art is an ongoing conversation, an exploration of the unknown.