Untitled (One of Four Diagonals) 1970

Fred Sandback made this, Untitled (One of Four Diagonals), with yarn, installed across the architecture. It's like drawing in space, or maybe sculpting with absence. The line slices through the room, and it almost doesn't matter what color the yarn is, it's the gesture that counts. Think about it - a simple piece of yarn can change how you perceive an entire space. The texture of the yarn itself is almost irrelevant; it’s more about the shadow it casts, the way it interacts with the light. It reminds me of some of Richard Tuttle’s pieces. Both artists have this incredible ability to make something profound out of seemingly nothing, but Sandback's is grander in scale. It's kind of like a haiku: minimal, but loaded with potential meanings. Like all the best art, it embraces ambiguity and lets us fill in the gaps.