Untitled 1996

Curator: Here we have an Untitled work by Bronlyn Jones, part of the Harvard Art Museums collection. Editor: It feels like looking at a deconstructed map, all muted tones and cryptic markings. There’s a quiet intensity to it. Curator: Jones’s practice is rooted in urban landscapes. One can read the horizontal and vertical lines as alluding to architectural plans and city grids, reflective of post-industrial urban decay. Editor: I see both control and chaos, a conversation between order and entropy. Like the city itself, it's constantly evolving, shifting, and decaying. Curator: Indeed. The ambiguity invites the viewer to contemplate the layers of history embedded within the urban environment and how these spaces shape social narratives. Editor: It makes me think about how we try to make sense of things, and how sometimes the beauty is in the fragments, in the unspoken. Curator: An astute observation, one that speaks to the power of abstraction. Editor: It's a reminder that not everything needs to be defined, labelled, or understood to be appreciated.