IMAGE:21 2019

Thomas Riesner made this small drawing, IMAGE:21, in an unknown year with what looks like graphite or charcoal. It’s a ghostly image, like a memory surfacing or a half-formed thought. The lines are raw, almost shaky, revealing the artist's process with an immediacy that's really disarming. Look at how the central figure seems to emerge from a tangle of lines, a kind of self portrait in the making. There is real energy in the marks, a tension between clarity and chaos, which makes it a compelling image. This piece reminds me a bit of Cy Twombly’s drawings, not in style, but in the way it embraces imperfection and invites us to find our own meaning within its scribbled depths. It celebrates the power of art to be suggestive rather than definitive, leaving room for our imaginations to wander and wonder.