Letchworth II 1961

Richard Claude Ziemann made this piece, Letchworth II, with ink on paper, and there is a real urgency in how it's made. You can see it in the marks. There’s a feeling of something captured very quickly. It’s like he’s trying to keep up with the movement of the world. The density of the strokes, all those tangled lines, they make me think of how nature is both chaotic and ordered, all at once. It reminds me a little bit of Cy Twombly's work – that same sense of gesture and energy, but in a totally different register. I particularly like how the bottom left is less dense. It’s almost like the image is breathing, or like the wind is blowing through the reeds, or maybe it’s just space for our eyes to wander in and out of the piece. Ultimately, it’s that openness, that ambiguity, that keeps me coming back.