Primitivism 2013/2014 wo quotes may illuminate the intention behind these works—a pursuit of form through automatic drawing, beginning with charcoal. It is an expressive journey without predetermined goals, an exploration of spontaneity. The ability to appreciate these monotypes in all four orientations further deepens their openness to interpretation. As I reflect on this year’s readings, I see how my path aligns with a process—one that embraces chance, allowing for an organic, meandering direction. There is comfort in coincidence, and a quiet reverence for those who have walked this creative road before me. A reminder that we are not alone in finding joy in this artistic pursuit. It is also a way to begin. Paul Klee, Pantheon Books, 1972: “It is a great difficulty and great necessity to have to start with the smallest. I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing; ignoring poets and fashions, to be almost primitive. Then I want to do something very modest; to work out by myself a tiny, formal motive, one that my pencil will be able to hold without any technique. One favorable moment is enough. The little thing is easily and concisely set down. It's already done! It was a tiny but real affair, and someday, through the repetition of such small but original deeds, there will come one work upon which I can really build.” Paul Klee, The Diaries of Paul Klee, University of California Press, 1964: “I project on the surface; that is, the essence of the subject must always become visible, even if this is impossible in nature, which is not adapted to this relief style. The absence of foreshortening also plays a crucial part in the process… For I have discovered a very small, undisputed, personal possession: a particular sort of three-dimensional representation on the flat surface… I am my style.”