When I was searching through the works of Agnes Martin, I was not particularly amazed— in fact I had no idea what she was trying to portray. Suddenly, a title caught my eye . . . “White Flower.” I glanced back and forth between the title and the painting in confusion. For the life of me, I could not see where there was a white flower amongst an ocean of lines. The whole painting was just a bunch of lines in different sizes and thicknesses. I stared at the painting for a while longer, until finally I saw it . . . the white flower. My imagination toyed with the lines, until they finally began to resemble a flower. It was that I realized the ingenious of the painting. It was because the canvass consisted solely of lines, that the painting could be anything the painter wanted it to be. Martin made the viewer see what she saw by combining her imagination with that of the viewer.
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