Neighbourhood #10 2018

Pavlo Makov made Neighbourhood #10 with etching on paper. It's a small work, so get up close and let your eyes wander through the architecture. Look at the lines. Each one feels deliberate, like the artist is mapping out not just a physical space, but also a system. The buildings, so uniform, are connected by these branching lines, almost like veins or roots. Is it a neighborhood or a network? The texture of the paper is rough around the edges, like the edges of a memory. And those tiny windows, each one a little rectangle of possibility. What stories do they hold? Does the symmetry offer comfort, or does it hint at something more unsettling, a kind of planned existence? Makov's work often explores urban themes, reflecting on the architecture that shapes our lives, so this feels like part of a bigger conversation. Like Piranesi’s architectural fantasies, this piece invites us to get lost in its details, to find beauty and maybe a bit of unease in the patterns of our world.