A single ruled line bisects the slate field in "Meet in one line," a 2026 work by Tacita Dean that transforms geometric economy into something quietly charged with expectation. Rendered in chalk and pearlescent powdered pigment on a sixty-one centimeter square of slate, the composition distills Dean's long fascination with thresholds and encounters into their most essential form. The pearlescent pigment catches and shifts with available light, lending the line a luminous instability that resists any reading of the work as fixed or resolved. Slate carries its own history of erasure and reinscription, and Dean's choice of the material feels fully intentional, situating this mark within a continuum of temporary notations that acquire permanence only through the frame. Dean's practice has long been shaped by an attentiveness to what resists technological reproduction, and the handmade, fugitive quality of chalk on slate speaks directly to that concern. The title invites the viewer into a conditional scenario, a point of convergence that the line both illustrates and withholds. Two parties, two trajectories, one agreed-upon meeting place, yet the image offers no figures, no movement, only the promise of contact crystallized in powder and mineral. The square format reinforces a sense of structured possibility, the composition closed and self-sufficient while remaining open in its implications. Currently available through Marian Goodman Gallery Los Angeles, "Meet in one line" represents Dean at her most concentrated. For collectors drawn to works that reward sustained attention, the piece offers a surface that is physically modest and conceptually expansive, shifting in character depending on the quality of light, the angle of viewing, and the associations each viewer brings to the notion of an appointed meeting.