Untitled

Untitled

Beatrice Riese

1996

graphite

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This image is a square of tiny, repeating marks. The whole thing looks like a dense web of lines—so packed together you can’t tell where one starts or ends. The edges are clean, and the paper is white, making the marks stand out. The marks are all the same size and shape, like a pattern you might see in a woven fabric or a mesh screen. It’s not a picture of anything real—just a close-up of texture. If you like this kind of close-up texture work, look up cross-hatching.

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