Carla Tak’s The View From Lookout Mountain III is a dense black and white whirlwind of mark-making. Swirling, heavily textured, and full of motion, it reads like a hand-drawn topography with looping lines, scraped surfaces, and layered gestures that pull you through a maze of fragments and bright openings.

Tak is a Vancouver-based painter known for intricate, evolving abstract work that leans into impasto and gestural force. Her practice is rooted in self-reflection, using palette knives, brushes, and her hands to translate emotion, perception, and memory into non-objective form. In this series, she has spoken about using pure blacks as a centring device, a way into the expressive potential of mark-making, and describes the process as cathartic and liberating.