[title not known] by  Terry Winters

[title not known] 2000

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Dimensions: image: 350 x 274 mm

Copyright: © Terry Winters | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate

Curator: Gazing at this Terry Winters piece from the Tate collection, I am immediately drawn into its tangled depths. What’s your initial take? Editor: I see process: the thick ink, the textured plates, and how that physicality argues with the open space. It's almost an archaeology of printmaking. Curator: It's like peering into a mind forming connections, isn't it? These dense, almost chaotic lines hint at something just beyond comprehension. Editor: Absolutely. And the rough, almost industrial quality of the top and bottom bands grounds that "mind" in something tangible, something built. Curator: It's fascinating how the artist uses such a stark palette to evoke such complex feelings. There’s a vulnerability within the bold strokes. Editor: Indeed. It's a conversation between the planned and the accidental, the cerebral and the material. Curator: Leaving me with a sense of both wonder and unease. Editor: Precisely. A testament to the power of exploring the tensions within the artistic process itself.

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This work, from a portfolio called Set of Ten, is one of ten etchings based on the paintings Winters was working on concurrently. Winters often revisits ideas in different bodies of work, creating sets and subsets of works that interact with and inform each other. The images in these prints relate to Winters’ various interests in communications technology, social structures and microbiology.