Untitled 9 (The Divide) Printmaking Contemporary Printmaking

A vast, velvety black field dominates the composition like a held breath, turning emptiness into a tangible architecture of silence. Along the upper edge, a thin, fragile procession of scratched marks—half skyline, half thicket—hovers as a distant memory of the outside world, while the lower-right inset cradles two entwined bodies in tender chiaroscuro, intimacy rendered as both refuge and confinement. The dislocation of scale and placement makes the embrace feel like a private island adrift in an indifferent void, suggesting how closeness can become a last light against encroaching erasure. In its stark economy, the work stages a quiet drama between presence and absence, where love is a small, stubborn image resisting the gravity of darkness.