Pebble and Seaweed 1987

Allin Braund made "Pebble and Seaweed," a painting, and the process feels like a slow, meditative accumulation. The texture! It’s a dance of thick and thin, where the paint either sits on the surface, catching light and shadow, or seeps into the canvas, creating these subtle stains and gradients. Look closely at the larger stone, and you can see these vertical lines running down its surface. They almost feel like cracks, or maybe veins. Are they solid or fragile? That ambiguity really tickles my brain. The darkness around the stones gives the painting a kind of quiet drama. This reminds me a bit of Milton Avery, in that it’s not about perfection or precision, but about a feeling, an atmosphere. It reminds us that art is just one person’s way of seeing, never the whole picture, and that’s what makes it so endlessly fascinating.