See Saw - Julika Pettigrew

This composition balances spontaneity with structure, evoking the playful yet precarious rhythm of its title. Geometric blocks of deep navy, green, and muted pink create a sense of weight and grounding, while delicate splashes, drips, and sweeping white lines introduce movement and unpredictability.

The painting’s layered surface reveals traces of earlier marks and textures, suggesting both erasure and persistence — a dynamic push and pull between order and chance. Much like the motion of a seesaw, the eye oscillates between areas of density and openness, between grounded shapes and fleeting gestures.

The work speaks to the balance we continually seek in daily life: between stability and change, control and release, heaviness and lightness.