The Reading Room

01 / LOOKING NOTES

Choose a starting point

A graphic work may first draw attention to its darkest colour or largest shape. Deliberately begin with a small part at the edge instead. Where does it take you? Changing a starting point lets the same composition tell another story without adding anything to it.

02 / LOOKING NOTES

A blank area can be an interval

Look between the lines and planes. Which areas feel like pauses, and which seem to wait for a connection? In a detail view, a small gap from the full composition may become the main space through which you read the work.

03 / LOOKING NOTES

Move from one composition to a sequence

Paper works in this collection use titles recalling ripples, maps, signs and calendars. Choose two whose titles differ but whose forms respond to each other. In a personal trail, you decide whether they should be read as continuity or contrast.