Colophon 1962

This intriguing print, ‘Colophon’ was made by Reva Urban at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles. Imagine her in that space, experimenting with the lithographic process, teasing out these elusive marks and tones. It feels like an echo, a whisper of an image. What I find so compelling is the intimacy of her hand. She wrote in the bottom left: 'Trembling Then...a suite of nine lithographs and four poems' and near that 'all stones and zines have been effaced'. This piece offers not a record of the image, but rather the poetic potential of what once was. We see names too, scrawled in a casual but tender way. There is an exchange of ideas, a conversation that spans generations, and that makes me feel connected to Reva, to her experiments and to my own, as we all continue to build upon the foundations laid by those who came before. Painting is about embracing uncertainty and seeing where it takes you.