Itineraire 1959

Jean Dubuffet made this print, Itineraire, and you can see the journey right there in the texture and the color. It's like he's mapping a terrain not with places, but with feelings. The surface has a mottled effect, almost like disturbed earth, and it makes you wonder what kind of tools he might have used to create that, maybe something more than just a brush. I see these scratches, these thin lines, running through the brown and ochre, like cracks or pathways on a well-worn map. That crack feels really important, because it reminds me that art is really just a conversation. It's all about layering, adding, taking away, building up. The work of Antoni Tàpies comes to mind, his material sensibility and exploration of earthy tones. Ultimately, I think Dubuffet wanted us to see the world in a new way, not as something fixed but as something always in process, always becoming.