And in Her Mouth was an Olive Leaf 1955

Fritz Eichenberg made "And in Her Mouth was an Olive Leaf" using wood engraving. The image is full of black ink with a variety of carved lines and hatched marks, it’s not a painting, but it kinda makes me wonder what the artist was thinking when he made it. The artist cut away at the block of wood, little by little, to reveal the scene of Noah's Ark. You can see the texture and surface marks. Like, how did he get those tiny lines to look so rough and expressive? It's really physical, you know? All these animals squished together with Noah reaching out to the dove. It’s like he’s communicating a feeling of hope through a mark making, through the choice of imagery, through the composition. It feels like this piece is in conversation with other artists' takes on the same subject. Artists are always riffing off each other, passing ideas back and forth across time. And ultimately, there is no right or wrong way to read this. It’s not fixed, it’s always moving.