Untitled

Untitled

Mark Lombardi

1997

graphite

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This drawing is a tangled web of lines and circles on white paper. Tiny names and places are written inside each shape, connected by pencil lines that crisscross everywhere. Some lines are thick, others faint, but all of them link the words together in a messy network. The whole thing looks like a map of hidden connections—maybe money, maybe secrets. The artist used only pencil, layering lines to build up shadows and shapes, almost like a sketch that never ended. If you like this, check out cross-hatching to see how artists build depth with just lines.

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