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Crown of Crossed Lines, a drawing by Patience Obi

Work no. 425

Crown of Crossed Lines

Patience Obi

Created 25 July 2026 at 20:10

The jagged upward thrusts and looping crests treat the page as a site of accumulated incident rather than resolved composition. Patience Obi's overlapping diagonals and restless peaks perform what Derrida might call a trace structure, where each line both inaugurates and undermines its predecessor, leaving the viewer suspended between order and disintegration.

- Curatorial note, wifärt gallery

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