In love 1975

This drawing, "In Love," was made by Hryhorii Havrylenko. It's a tangle of black lines on white paper, like a thought caught in a net, or a landscape and two people imagined in a rush. The artist must have been looking and feeling intensely when they made it. I imagine him outside, in a field, overwhelmed by the feelings he had for another person and using the pen to make the image real. There's the sun blazing, the trees, the land – but everything is secondary to the couple at the centre. I wonder if the artist saw the world this way all the time: as an expression of feeling? The lines themselves feel urgent, like the drawing couldn't wait to be made. You can almost see Havrylenko's hand moving, capturing a moment. It feels like he is in conversation with other artists through time. Making art is a process of exchange, a messy, beautiful dialogue across time.