Carselands (or "The Carse") 1914

David Young Cameron etched "Carselands" - or "The Carse" - on a plate, pulling this print from it. There's a real intimacy in Cameron's mark-making, like a whispered secret between artist and copper. It’s a landscape rendered in whispers. Check out how the texture of the paper becomes part of the image, creating this kind of dreamy haze. The lines are so delicate, almost hesitant, yet they build into something solid. See how those dark lines in the foreground, scrabbly and uncertain, give way to the smoother, more confident strokes defining the hills in the distance? I like to think about that tension between chaos and control as a way of understanding the whole piece. This feels like a cousin to Whistler's etchings, that same moodiness, that same interest in light and atmosphere over detail. It reminds us that art is a conversation, an echo of ideas across time.