Manifested Sound 1985

Oleksandr Aksinin made this painting called Manifested Sound using what looks like watercolor, and I wonder about the process of how it came into being. I mean, look at how carefully he painted all those wood planks. I can imagine Aksinin thinking about the relationship between what we hear and how we perceive it. I imagine him carefully building up layers, letting the ear emerge from the center of the work, a very human form within a geometric frame. He’s saying something about how we make sense of the world, building up these layers and layers of meaning until something, like a sound, manifests. It's as if this painting is asking us to think about sound as something solid, something architectural. The ear is like a door! I can’t help but feel that Aksinin knew what he was doing, riffing off other artists, contributing to this never-ending conversation.