Talismans - in "The Infinite Line" the use of the talisman is mentioned as a part of Agnes Martin's work. I can see that in her work and wonder how of much of that is attributed to being a symbol representing the spiritual - similar to a grid, the intersecting point of the natural and supernatural - or that the object itself is the spiritual.
Agnes describes her work using "infinite", "joy", "bliss" and "sublime". These words, in my experience are relegated to discussions of intense spirituality and described almost a final state of spiritual achievement, exemplified by the Siddhartha or the Dalai Llama. And that this state can be achieved by anyone. How does art provide that for us? Can this art provide universal "bliss" to its audience similar to how meditation claims to? A relationship can be that in observing these Untitled works, the viewer does get drawn in to the patches of infinitude that are shown. The perpendicular and parallel lines do in some fashion grip and take hold of the viewer, in a sense almost incarcerating rather than liberating.
In one piece, Martin placed a boundary around her grid to enable it "stopping from being an extended continuum". Is there such a thing as an "extended" continuum? Are not all continuum's extended. How can something that has boundaries be any kind of continuum? Further, what spirituality may we reach if there is a beginning and an end?
lastly, i had a question one what this meant: "as self contained things, the drawings embrace the infinite but resist becoming totalities"
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