Untitled (Blue Wall Relief) 1968

This is a "Blue Wall Relief" by Craig Kauffman, and I can only imagine the process of creating it—shifting, emerging, through trial, error, and intuition. I feel for Kauffman. I imagine him wrestling with that glossy surface, pushing and pulling the material to get that perfect balance between smoothness and depth, form and color. The blue he uses is so intense! It's like diving into a dream, a space without edges. There's something so satisfying about this object. It relates to what other painters have done, it's like they are in an ongoing conversation, exchanging ideas across time and inspiring each other’s creativity. This blue relief embraces ambiguity, leaving space for interpretation and meaning over fixed or definitive readings.