One of her artworks that caught my attention is ‘’ Myriads, Only By Dark’’ Julie Mehretu’s work is about layers: the physical layering of images, marks, and mediums, and the figurative layering of time, space, place, and history. Working in a large scale, Mehretu draws on the 21st-century city for inspiration, transferring its energy into her gestural sweeps of paint and built-up marks in ink and pencil—often transposed from projections—and condensing seemingly infinite urban narratives, architectural views, and street plans into single unified compositions. Mehretu originally conceived of Myriads as four autonomous prints, but later decided that they should be seen together as a single, four-panel work.
