Untitled (scientific chart on wall at research facility) c. 1950

Editor: So, this is Jack Gould's "Untitled (scientific chart on wall at research facility)." It's quite small, just 6x6 cm. It feels a little like looking at a strange game board, doesn't it? What grabs you when you see this? Curator: It's that tension between the clinical and the chaotic, isn’t it? The rigid grid, the stenciled letters, yet those colors feel almost... rebellious, breaking the sterility. Makes you wonder what kind of experiments were going on, doesn't it? Makes me think about how we try to categorize and control the world. Do you think the artist was celebrating or critiquing that? Editor: Hmm, critiquing? It’s a little sad actually, like the chart is there to impose some semblance of order on the chaos. I like how the rigid grid is disrupted by the different colors, as if chaos cannot really be contained. Curator: Exactly! It’s a quiet rebellion, whispering from the walls of a lab. Editor: It does get you thinking about what order really means, doesn't it?