Untitled 

Louise Bourgeois created this untitled print using drypoint, a printmaking technique, sometime during her long career. This image could be read as a landscape, or perhaps a seascape. Given the artist's frequent use of psychological themes and the way institutions like psychoanalysis shape our understanding of the world, it is likely that Bourgeois would also have been interested in the emotional associations of these motifs. The seascapes of this period could be associated with journeys, emigration and exile - Bourgeois was herself a French expat living in New York City when she made this print. Her work often confronted themes of loneliness, alienation and the fragmentation of identity. Do the swelling waves of this seascape suggest turbulence, the threat of being overwhelmed? Or is there a sense of tranquility in the repetition of the water and the harmony of the composition? In order to understand the art of Louise Bourgeois more fully, we might consult her diaries and letters, accounts of her psychoanalysis, and of course, the many interviews she gave during her lifetime.