White Wall

Edmond Casarella

A formidable set of angles and planes marches across the sheet in a rigid, if cattywampus, composition that resembles both a natural formation and a human-made structure. The white cliffs of Dover; the ancient Sumerian ziggurat of Ur; the marble quarries of Carrara, or a simple, sagging white picket fence: Edmond Casarella gives no hint as to what inspired this piece, only asks that the viewer recognize the pattern he’s coaxed from chaos.

Casarella’s signature medium - thick, oil-based ink rolled onto cut paper shapes, placed carefully on the sheet and sent through the press - works well to present a sense of the monolithic. He has thinned the white ink of the “wall” so that it settles into a texture like polished granite, carved by man or time to be straight and narrow once upon a time, now leaning and jutting with age.