Tori 

Editor: We are looking at "Tori" by Chieko Ando. This print, likely made with ink, features abstract geometric forms, primarily in black against a light background. It feels powerful, almost like an emblem or symbol, but I'm struggling to understand its deeper meaning. What do you see in this work? Curator: Oh, this one sings to me! The way the forms erupt from the 'table' at the base, aspiring upwards with such conviction...It makes me wonder about foundational elements. Is it the literal base, the support, or is it a deeper metaphorical rooting? Look at the varying density of the ink. Doesn't it feel like a dance between chaos and intentionality? Does this tension perhaps tell us something of how meaning comes into being, out of amorphous possibility? What’s *your* initial hunch, unburdened by the what-should-I-think? Editor: I initially saw it as rigid, but I think the movement is definitely present. The upward brushstrokes fighting for expression feel somewhat explosive, though that initial grounded form tries to restrain them... almost like the creative process itself! I guess I can feel its energy now. Curator: Precisely! It's in that friction – the tension between order and chaos–where true art lives, wouldn’t you say? Editor: Definitely! I’ll look at abstract art differently from now on. It has so much more intention behind each stroke. Curator: And don't forget your own intuitive reading of that language!