Untitled 1995

David Jeffrey made this 'Untitled' work from paper, and it's a small, intimate experience. I imagine the artist handling the paper, maybe folding and unfolding it, coaxing those delicate stains to appear. They could be from the studio, or tea, or maybe just the air. It looks like a painterly veil; like he’s painting with absence. It's not about adding so much as allowing, letting the paper itself become the canvas and the story. The physicality here is subtle. The paper seems thin, almost translucent, but it holds these quiet marks with such grace. It's like a conversation between control and chance. The work reminds me of Agnes Martin’s subtle grids. There is a kind of quietude in the understated gesture. Artists are always in dialogue across time, responding to each other's efforts, building on what's come before. It's a conversation that embraces ambiguity, finding space for multiple meanings rather than settling on one fixed idea.