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Loop and Leaf, Black and White Abstract Drawing

A square composition in solid black and white made of overlapping rounded loops, striped ovals, and pointed leaf or blade shapes. The shapes are packed tightly inside an uneven, rounded black frame. The lower right is filled with fine radiating lines, like a web, and a small signature sits in the bottom right corner.

Someone wants this piece for its pure, high-contrast pattern. It is strictly black and white, with no grays. The same looping, leaf-like shapes read as solid forms and as empty space, so the eye keeps switching between them. Many black-and-white abstracts are bold but flat and quickly read. This one is packed edge to edge, and the dense web of fine lines in the lower right gives the eye somewhere to settle after it has travelled around the square.

Artwork by Omaste Witkowski