Flower-1

Across the CSW paintings series, one structure repeats, a mesh of dark, threadlike contour lines standing in for a system, a nervous fabric of nodes and crossings that Ghossoub runs through a full spectrum of states: cyan, peach, green-yellow, deep blue, red. In most of the series the web stays open, diagrammatic, closer to circuitry laid bare than to picture-making. The two Flower paintings are where it closes: the same lines drawn tight enough to become a single form, a bloom instead of a network. Read side by side, Flower I and Flower II feel like two readings of one question; what a cybernetic system looks like in the instant it stops transmitting signal and starts taking shape, first as something still forming in blue, then as something fully arrived in red.

Artist: zenarts