Enamel on Wood: Blue Green 1989

Marcia Hafif made this blue green painting with enamel on wood. There's a meditative quality to this work, a concentrated seeing that slows you down. I wonder what it was like for her, alone in the studio, coating this wooden board with layers of enamel. Was she thinking about Agnes Martin, or the monochrome paintings of Yves Klein? What does this blue-green remind you of? Maybe the ocean, or a faded memory. It's a color that pulls you in, asking you to stay a while, to just look and be present. The more you look, the more the surface seems to shift and glow, like a portal into another world. Artists are always in conversation with each other, and with themselves, chasing that feeling, that perfect shade, that moment of connection. Paintings like this remind us that art is a process, an ongoing search, and an invitation to see the world in a new way.