(Architectural-like structure; like a playground environmental sculpture) 1974

Connie Benham made this intaglio print called (Architectural-like structure; like a playground environmental sculpture) and it’s fascinating. I can imagine Connie working on this print, layering the ink to define these modular, concrete forms, shifting and emerging through trial, error, and intuition. I sympathize with Connie, imagining what it might have been like to create. What was she thinking when she made it? The surface is grainy, like the effect of cement, which shapes our experience of the print, resonating emotionally and intellectually. What I find interesting is how the solid and void are in dialogue with one another. And the composition is a wonderful balancing act! Artists are in an ongoing conversation and exchange of ideas across time, inspiring one another’s creativity, always embracing ambiguity and uncertainty.