Landscape 1958

John Ery Coleman made this print, Landscape, using etching on a plate. The scene is set with a bold, almost brutal mark making approach, like raw emotion scraped onto the surface. The blacks and whites are dense, creating a stark contrast that emphasizes the texture and physicality of the medium. You can almost feel the artist digging into the plate, creating deep grooves and lines. See that one dark arch? It pulls you in, doesn't it? It’s like a cave, or maybe a portal to another world. Coleman reminds me a bit of Piranesi, both artists using the etching process to express something monumental but also deeply personal. What’s really great about works like this is how it embraces ambiguity. It’s not about a perfect image, but about the process of seeing and feeling.