untitled (sync #2) Drawing

untitled (sync #2) 2012_03_15 graphite on paper 18” x 23 3/8” (45.7 x 59.4)cm Matt Niebuhr a series exploring synchronicity - two or more groups of lines drawn with varied pressure - graphite lines cascading on the page… each line in response to the next…and the next until a surface or field emerges. Inspired in part by the work of Agnes Martin: “When people go to the ocean they like to see it all day… There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall. It’s a simple experience, you become lighter in weight, you wouldn’t want anything else. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting. Nature is like parting a curtain - you go into it. I want to draw a certain response like this. … Not a specific response but that quality of response from people when they leave themselves behind, often experienced in nature - an experience of simple joy… the simple, direct going into a field of vision as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.” - Agnes Martin 1966”