Arrojo 1994

Maria Teresa Rizzi made "Arrojo" using etching, a printmaking technique that’s all about layering and texture. I can imagine her working on the plate, scratching and biting into the surface, building up these intricate, interlocking shapes. The color palette is so interesting: muted blues and greens, like looking at a pond, with these rusty brown lines snaking through. It's a bit like a biology diagram but then it breaks down into abstraction. There’s a tension here – a pull between representation and pure form. It’s like Rizzi started with something concrete, but then let the process take over, allowing intuition and chance to guide the composition. It’s not just about what’s depicted, but the feeling of the thing, a kind of internal landscape made visible. Painting is a conversation, an ongoing dialogue between artists across time. We are all inspiring each other, and I feel inspired by this.