Diptych 1956

Lolo Soldevilla made this diptych and it really speaks to me. I’m imagining Soldevilla in her studio, arranging these shapes, probably playing around with stencils and maybe even some collage. She’s feeling her way through geometry, just letting her intuition lead. On the left panel are these bisected circles in a grid - half blue, half red. It’s like she's charting lunar phases, or maybe just exploring the tension between order and variation, the relationship between two and one. Then, on the right, things get wilder. There are all these overlapping circles, in red, white and blue. Some are connected by lines, others not. The color palette feels so grounded, while the lines are like pathways connecting her thoughts. Like a constellation or a map, each circle a little world of its own. I wonder if Soldevilla knew she was creating a diagram of the mind. Or was she just having fun? Either way, it’s an open invitation to dive in and find your own connections.