One ear stands up and closed, the other opens wide - the asymmetry alone tells you this creature was drawn from feeling rather than observation, the same instinct Dubuffet spent a career defending as more honest than training. Two strokes beneath suggest legs mid-stride; a third floats free to the right, refusing to become either ground or horizon. The scratched-in smile holds the whole thing together.
One ear stands up and closed, the other opens wide - the asymmetry alone tells you this creature was drawn from feeling rather than observation, the same instinct Dubuffet spent a career defending as more honest than training. Two strokes beneath suggest legs mid-stride; a third floats free to the right, refusing to become either ground or horizon. The scratched-in smile holds the whole thing together.
- Curatorial note, wifärt gallery