Composition with rectangles 1969

Hryhorii Havrylenko made this composition with rectangles at an unknown date with an unknown medium. But you can imagine him making it, right? It feels like the image came into being slowly, shifting and emerging through trial, error, and intuition. I sympathize with Havrylenko here. He’s investigating some ideas about geometric form and line. Just how can a few lines on paper communicate architectural space? What does it mean for a line to wobble, or not meet the other lines? There’s not a lot of tonal range here, but the delicate gradations in the line's weight and character shape our experience. They contribute to the resonance of the work. It reminds me a little bit of Agnes Martin’s work. All these artists are in ongoing conversation, after all, inspiring one another’s creativity. Painting is an embodied expression which embraces ambiguity and uncertainty, allowing for multiple interpretations.