Thinking About Immanuel Kant on 26.02.2022 2022

Alevtyna Kakhidze made this drawing, "Thinking About Immanuel Kant on 26.02.2022", with ink and colored pencil on a day when big ideas and stark realities collided. The artist favors a raw, unfiltered approach. You can see it in the directness of the lines, and the way the red bleeds slightly outside its borders. It's like she's thinking out loud, letting us in on her process. There's a tension in the work, between the figure's disbelieving expression and Kant's confident assertion of 'perpetual peace'. The red marks at the bottom feel like a disruption, staining the ground with a sense of unease. Note how the artist leaves the ground unfinished. Kakhidze's art often blends personal experience with broader philosophical questions. You might also think of artists like Philip Guston, who embraced a similar kind of immediacy and vulnerability in their work, reminding us that art is not about answers, but about the questions we dare to ask.