The Plunge into the Deep 1935

Marta Hoepffner made this photomontage, 'The Plunge into the Deep', by combining photographs and hand-drawn elements. There’s a dreamy quality to this image, and I imagine Hoepffner assembling it in her studio. It’s like a page from a visual diary, or a storyboard for a surrealist film. It makes me wonder what it was like to be her at that moment, arranging these images and adding those hand-drawn stars. I think of my own process, how one mark leads to another, how ideas shift and morph as I work. It makes you feel things. The way she’s juxtaposed these elements creates a sense of displacement, like floating in the deep, dark abyss. Artists, we’re all in this ongoing conversation across time, inspiring each other's creativity. It's all about embracing ambiguity, allowing for multiple readings and meaning over fixed answers.