Wales 15 1953

Robert Frank's "Wales 15," is a photographic contact sheet. It shows us an array of images, each a small window into a place and time. The images are mostly stark black and white. They possess a grainy quality. I find the texture gritty. They give you a sense of the raw, unfiltered world. You can see Frank's process laid bare. It reminds me that artmaking is not just about the final product, but about the journey. I like the red mark on the left side. It slices into the orderly grid of images. It feels like a raw, gestural mark in the middle of all this documentary evidence. It reminds me of Cy Twombly. Both artists find beauty in the imperfect and the unfinished. It's a conversation across mediums and generations about the nature of seeing.