Snokomo Road 1974

Sheigla Hartman made this drawing titled 'Snokomo Road' with graphite on paper. The drawing feels like a little haiku. It has a light touch, the paper just barely kissed by the pencil, and a beautiful all-over composition. It feels like an echo of the landscape, more sensed than seen. I can imagine her standing there, maybe a little cold, squinting at the light. She must have had to edit and redraw the branches to make the composition work. There’s something in this drawing, in its quiet way of seeing, that makes me want to slow down and look harder at the world around me. I think of Agnes Martin's drawings or Brice Marden’s line drawings. It’s like they’re all talking to each other across time, saying: "Hey, look at this. Isn’t it amazing?"