Study for "Le Parc, No. 3" 1970

Robert Gordy made this Study for "Le Parc, No. 3" with what looks like colored inks or dyes on paper. The way the colors are laid down feels so deliberate, a real testament to the slow, thoughtful process of artmaking. Look at how he uses the inks; they’re thin, almost translucent, allowing the paper's surface to breathe. The color palette, with its reds and blacks, creates a really intense emotional landscape, like peering into a fever dream. My eye is drawn to the repeating shapes across the bottom, like stylized figures almost floating on a dark sea. The consistent shapes lend the piece an almost architectural quality, as if Gordy is charting a landscape both mental and physical. It's hard not to think of Hilma af Klint’s geometric abstraction, both tapping into a similar spiritual language through form and color. Art is just one big conversation, isn’t it? Where meanings shift and change with every viewing.