
“It's instinctive in a certain kind of painting, not as if you were painting an object or special things, but it's like coming through the nervous system. It's like a nervous system. It's not described, it's happening.”
The work pulses with a raw, kinetic energy, its tangle of looping graphite lines, waxy smears, and scrawled marks cascading across the paper as though recorded directly from the body's involuntary impulses. Twombly layers felt-tip pen and colored pencil into the composition, building a visual language that feels less like deliberate mark-making and more like the residue of thought itself. The result is a charged, nervous surface where gesture and sensation collapse into one another, resisting fixed meaning in favor of pure, unmediated presence.
- Medium
- graphite, wax crayon, felt-tip pen and colored pencil on paper
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Contemporary Art Evening Sale
November 11, 2013
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