Untitled 2022

This ink drawing on paper by Alevtyna Kakhidze has a sketchbook rawness that’s really appealing. I love the directness of the marks, which have a kind of urgent simplicity. It's like she needed to get something down fast, and the lines are all about capturing the feeling, not the detail. I can imagine her hand moving quickly across the page, not fussing, just letting the images flow. The figures are so spare and elongated. I feel like I am witnessing a kind of quiet theater – a reflection of the artist’s inner world. I wonder what the artist was thinking about while making this drawing? What does it feel like to live in the world as Kakhidze? What stories are they trying to tell? And how does that resonate with my own experiences as a painter, or even just as a person trying to communicate something meaningful? It all feels deeply personal, a kind of intimate conversation captured in ink.