Wine Glass 1935 - 1942

Palmyra Pimentel made this gorgeous drawing of a wine glass, using graphite. I am thinking about what she saw and how her hand moved across the paper. It's kind of perfect, actually, how this drawing isolates an everyday object and asks us to really consider it. The wine glass stands alone against the blank page. It has a reflective surface that shows light, and then the shadow below—it’s pretty, but not romantic. There's an honest stillness in it. There’s nothing overtly expressive, yet it has a presence. It’s so simple; it is like a lesson from another time. The way she has held the pencil and created a subtle likeness feels like a gentle conversation between her and the object, so it can appear again, now, to you.