Quiet Current
Nika Vale · Abstract blackwork
04 / The drawing archive
ABSTRACT BLACKWORK
A bold shape can be a quiet gesture. These studies treat black ink and untouched space as equal materials. Their subject is the way a form leans, turns, pauses or almost meets another.
Weight. Motion. Absence.
A vocabulary
of marks.
- Dense silhouettes
- Deliberately open channels
- Asymmetry with a clear centre of gravity
Two questions to carry with you
A flowing gesture or a compact shape?
Where should the composition leave room?
Nika Vale ↗