Untitled 2018

This artwork is by Alevtyna Kakhidze, and it looks like it's made with ink and coloured pencil in a sketchbook. I can imagine her flicking through the pages and stopping to add a thought, image, or phrase here and there. The drawing emerges through this constant shift between error, trial, and intuition. The palette is sparse, mostly just blue ink with touches of grey pencil, and that really sets the mood. I’m thinking about how this artist is thinking about other places while she's working. She’s putting down her thoughts about her country and house, writing “sorry you missed it” on heart-shaped pendants. Maybe the price of the brooch at the Vintage Fair and her desire to share memories are mixed up in her mind. I feel her loneliness and her connection to where she is from. This piece reminds me of other artists who use drawing as a form of notation, like Cy Twombly or the journal pages of Joseph Cornell. It’s like they are always talking to other artists and having conversations across time. Alevtyna is embracing ambiguity, letting it all hang out on the page.