Korenschoven te Ede 1927

Dick Ket made this print called 'Korenschoven te Ede'. The way the black ink sits on the page is really striking; look at the vertical marks building up the stooks of corn against the landscape of horizontal lines. It’s like he’s built up the image through touch, each mark a physical act. I love that. It's like drawing and sculpture combined. Take a look at the sky; it's made up of these radiating lines pushing up and out of the image which seem to echo and amplify the structures below. The print really comes alive in the contrast between these densely packed areas and the stark white of the paper, using the black ink to create different textures that give the landscape depth. It makes me think a little of the graphic work of someone like Stanley Donwood, who created the artwork for Radiohead. You can see the same way of building up an image through the process of mark-making. For Ket, it's not just about what's represented, but how it's represented that counts.