Hakuin Ekaku's ink circles proved that a brushed form doesn't need to depict anything to carry its full weight, and these two brown strokes work on the same principle, separated across the white field as though mid-conversation. The vertical line at right curves with the confidence of something that doesn't need to arrive anywhere; the compact, knuckled form at lower centre sits like a question the larger stroke has already forgotten asking.
Hakuin Ekaku's ink circles proved that a brushed form doesn't need to depict anything to carry its full weight, and these two brown strokes work on the same principle, separated across the white field as though mid-conversation. The vertical line at right curves with the confidence of something that doesn't need to arrive anywhere; the compact, knuckled form at lower centre sits like a question the larger stroke has already forgotten asking.
- Curatorial note, wifärt gallery