Twining Court II 2002

This is Anne Truitt's 'Twining Court II', a painted wood sculpture, and I can only imagine how it came into being – a slow dance of trial, error, and intuition. I wonder about Anne's process, standing before this wood, how she might have carefully considered the surface. What was she thinking as she built up those layers, that skin of black paint? The paint looks thin, so the wood might peek through? A single gesture, that continuous vertical line, can be so potent. It speaks of so many things – feeling, intention, maybe even a quiet scream into the world. This piece talks to Agnes Martin’s grids, Barnett Newman’s zips, and even the color field paintings of Helen Frankenthaler. Artists are always in conversation, you know, inspiring each other across time. Painting is a form of expression. It's embodied, messy, and embraces ambiguity. There are no fixed answers here, just endless possibilities.