A purple line traces the silhouette of a horse's head with surprising structural authority, while to its left a triangular form collapses into looping, self-interrupting arcs. Susan Rothenberg spent years on precisely this problem, the horse dissolving into the field that carries it. Butler's overlapping trajectories fracture any stable reading of figure and ground, pulling the animal into a calligraphic dissolution closer to notation than illustration.
A purple line traces the silhouette of a horse's head with surprising structural authority, while to its left a triangular form collapses into looping, self-interrupting arcs. Susan Rothenberg spent years on precisely this problem, the horse dissolving into the field that carries it. Butler's overlapping trajectories fracture any stable reading of figure and ground, pulling the animal into a calligraphic dissolution closer to notation than illustration.
- Curatorial note, wifärt gallery