[chasontherobot]

I remember the moment I walked into the Menil Art Museum in Houston, Texas and saw my first Jasper Johns. They were so simple from a distance but up close had such complexity that they really stuck with me.

Really good art is often both striking without any foreknowledge, but also reveals extra complexity when you learn about the context in which it was made. When you look at a piece of non representational art, before you know the artist, try and think about the choices the artist made, and why they made them. Why is this line a certain thickness here, why is this part more or less transparent?

The process of making any piece of art is a series of decisions, conscious or not and at least to me, non representational art is an attempt to distill that part of creation into a physical form.