Hexagram 5 1985

This is *Hexagram 5* by Oleksandr Aksinin, a work of the artist’s short life. Look at the way he seems to have built the image dot by dot, line by line. I get a strong sense of process. The figure appears to be reclining, maybe thinking or dreaming. Notice how Aksinin has built the image with tiny marks, a field of dark on light, obsessively rendered! What do you make of the lines and abstract shapes? Does it add to the overall mood? It’s as though the artist has spun a web around her. I wonder what Aksinin was thinking, maybe something about Eastern philosophy? All these tiny marks feel connected. I look at other artists and see that we are all in conversation, all trying to work things out. What does it mean? I don’t know, but that’s the best part.