Person 1992

Se-Ok Suh made this *Person* with ink, right? Imagine that brush loaded with dark ink, pulled across the surface in broad, confident strokes. I wonder what it felt like for the artist, making these marks – two lines intersecting like arms open in an embrace, or maybe a struggle. There’s something so direct, like a primal scream captured in ink. You can almost feel the artist's breath, can't you? It's more than just an image; it’s a record of a physical act, a dance between brush and surface. I think of other artists like Franz Kline, who also worked with bold, black gestures, but there's something different about the touch here. It has a calligraphic quality, linking it to a deeper history of mark-making. It’s like one artist talking to another across time, each leaving their own unique mark, their own kind of person.