Itinerario 14 2020

Pavlo Makov made this etching called Itinerario 14, and right away, I imagine him bent over the plate, carefully etching those tiny houses. It's a map, maybe? A constellation of homes connected by lines, like thoughts linking up in the brain. Each house is a little world, a space for dreams and memories. I wonder what it was like for Makov to etch each one, thinking about the people who might live there, the stories unfolding inside those walls. It's such a delicate act, this etching. The composition creates this vortex, pulling you towards the center. Does it make you feel like you are being drawn into the artist's mind? Or, like the little houses, are you just a node in someone else's grand design? Makov is in dialogue with cartographers and urban planners. It is a conversation about how we navigate the spaces we inhabit. It's beautiful, isn't it?