A single pill-shaped smear sits adrift in an otherwise unbroken white field, its isolation operating precisely as John Cage understood silence to operate - not as absence but as charged condition. Webb's compression of the entire pictorial event into one modest, slightly tilted stroke asks what minimum of incident is required before a surface becomes a composition.
A single pill-shaped smear sits adrift in an otherwise unbroken white field, its isolation operating precisely as John Cage understood silence to operate - not as absence but as charged condition. Webb's compression of the entire pictorial event into one modest, slightly tilted stroke asks what minimum of incident is required before a surface becomes a composition.
- Curatorial note, wifärt gallery