Hurricane No. 2 c. 1935 - 1943

Eugene Morley’s "Hurricane No. 2" is all about black and white, light and dark. I wonder about the act of creating this print, the labor of the artist, bent over the plate, pushing and pulling the tools across its surface, the way each mark creates a space for an idea, a feeling, to take shape. Making prints is like wrestling with an image, trying to pin it down, but it keeps slipping away, each layer changing, each pass through the press offering new surprises. Did you see the lines piling up, colliding and diverging? It's like a dance of chaos and order, much like a real hurricane. Maybe Morley was thinking about loss, about nature's power to erase and rearrange. Or maybe he was just fascinated by the shapes that emerge when things fall apart, those hidden geometries revealed in the aftermath. Artists see the world differently, don't they? They are the receivers and transmitters who remind us of the messy, complicated, and beautiful world.