Exchange

Exchange, a 2018 pastel on paper by Sara Lee, presents a minimalist horizontal landscape divided into two bands: a soft blue-gray sky filling the upper four-fifths, its surface built from smudged, horizontal streaks suggesting distant cloud or haze, meeting a flat horizon. Below, a solid yellow-green band represents a field or ground plane, rendered as a smooth expanse of color with no internal detail. There are no figures or objects present; the composition is quiet and atmospheric, relying entirely on the contrast between the two color fields.