Anna Couani #95 enamel finger paint

enamel by Icilio Martich-Severi

at first the work looks like a finger painting

but at close range

the streams of lines

like where fingers might have travelled

are glazed

enamel on steel

so transient-seeming

a record of the gesture

but frozen permanently

like those silk screen prints

of Lichtenstein

showing a seemingly gestural brushstroke

that movement

made still