I.A. Garden 2019

Pavlo Makov made I.A. Garden using etching on paper, and it’s a whole world rendered in delicate lines and subtle shading. Just imagine the artist, bent over the plate, coaxing each tiny tree, each shadow, into existence. It's a meditative act, right? You know, looking at it, I wonder if Makov felt like he was building a world, bit by bit. I think about how the surface holds this incredible dance of marks, each one a decision, a breath, a tiny push and pull. The garden itself feels like a memory, or maybe a dream of a place, both familiar and impossibly distant. It is a bit like the prints of Giovanni Battista Piranesi! Artists are always in conversation, riffing off each other, finding new ways to see, to feel, to make. This garden offers a space for wandering, for dreaming, for losing oneself in the beauty of the imperfect, the unfinished, the always becoming.