Copyright: Hryhorii Havrylenko,Fair Use
This is Hryhorii Havrylenko's layout for Panas Mirnyi's book "Chipka," and it looks like it’s made with ink on paper. I find myself drawn to the mark-making here, those delicate yet assertive lines that build form from shadow. The little house, rendered with such economy, nestles under a sky of hatched ink. The texture isn’t just visual; you can almost feel the scratch of the pen, the absorption of the ink into the paper. I love how the whiteness of the page breathes around the image, lending it space. The blank rectangle where the text would go, a space for words, but also a kind of minimalist form. Thinking about folks like Agnes Martin or even Sol LeWitt, who both in their own way strip things back to elemental forms, I feel like Havrylenko is doing something similar here. It’s art about art, about the building blocks of storytelling. And isn’t that what art is, really? An ongoing conversation, each artist adding their voice to the chorus.
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