Holiday Greetings 1922

Pamela Bianco made this beautiful print, Holiday Greetings, using some kind of printmaking technique – etching or engraving, maybe – to create a field of tiny, tiny dots. I can imagine Bianco’s patient hand at work here. It must have been a slow, meditative practice, building up the image dot by dot, almost like a pointillist painting. There's a gorgeous contrast between the soft, blurry edges of the flowers and books, and the crystal clarity of the vase. It’s like a dance between the ephemeral and the concrete. Look at the way the light filters through the glass, catching the edges of the flowers and the spines of the books. And that title, Holiday Greetings, what do you think she was thinking? Was this a heartfelt message to someone far away, or a quiet observation of a moment of beauty in a world of books and flowers? Painters like Bianco, who experiment with technique, remind us that art is always a process of discovery. Each mark, each dot, is a step into the unknown.