Painting: White Room #9 by Wesley Kimler, Framed

Black arrives first. Everything else in the room has to negotiate.

White Room #9 is a framed work on paper by Wesley Kimler, USA, made about 2003 in black gesso and charcoal with collage. Collage lets a drawing keep the evidence of its own making, and this one does. Pieced sheets with visible seams form an uneven pale ground, clouded with smoke-gray smudges and faint printed patterns. Across it sprawls one large black form, ringed in places with thin white ovals, trailing loose dark lines at its lower end. 61 inches wide and 55 inches high.

It does not explain itself. It has the wall space not to.