Interim 1942

Josef Albers created "Interim" using lithography, and honestly, you can feel his careful hand in each line. It looks like this geometric maze is rising from the paper – a set of receding boxes stacked with mathematical precision. I wonder if he made a few errors here and there? Even a little wobble in the drawing would give it life. What was Albers thinking when he made this print? Was he trying to find some visual harmonic interval? I like to imagine him, a total Bauhaus professor type, making all these lines like a meditation. I see the echoes of artists like Sol Lewitt, or even Agnes Martin. The conversation between artists is unending, isn’t it? It’s always inspiring me and shifting my perspective. "Interim" is a great example of how something so precise can also feel so open to possibility.