A straight vertical rules the composition from above the stem down through the body and beyond the lower edge - the line drawn first, almost certainly, before any curve was attempted. Against this fixed spine the rounded outer form was built: a broad, bumpy silhouette that rises from a flattened base on the left, swells through the middle third, and closes again on the right with a slight irregularity at the shoulder. The stem is a small angular shape, its faceted outline pressed tight against the vertical. What is most charged is the relationship between the mechanical rigidity of that ruled stroke and the entirely freehand wobble of the outer contour - two modes of drawing coexisting on the same sheet, neither correcting the other.
A straight vertical rules the composition from above the stem down through the body and beyond the lower edge - the line drawn first, almost certainly, before any curve was attempted. Against this fixed spine the rounded outer form was built: a broad, bumpy silhouette that rises from a flattened base on the left, swells through the middle third, and closes again on the right with a slight irregularity at the shoulder. The stem is a small angular shape, its faceted outline pressed tight against the vertical. What is most charged is the relationship between the mechanical rigidity of that ruled stroke and the entirely freehand wobble of the outer contour - two modes of drawing coexisting on the same sheet, neither correcting the other.
- Curatorial note, wifärt gallery