Ribbon 1900 - 1925

This "Ribbon" was made by an anonymous artist, and right away it makes me think about the act of making itself—like, how does something like this come into being? I’m picturing the artist with their materials, shifting and emerging, through trial, error, and intuition. I sympathize with the artist and imagine them figuring it all out, all the while thinking about the material aspects, the texture, the color, the surface. The paint looks thin, right? How do those elements shape the experience of the painting and its emotional resonances? I keep looking at the particular gestures in the patterning, the way each petal or leaf communicates feeling, intention, meaning. It makes me think about the artist's wider practice, how art is an ongoing conversation across time, inspiring creativity. Painting becomes an embodied expression with ambiguity, open to interpretation.