Petroglyph 1935 - 1942

Lala Eve Rivol made this 'Petroglyph' with pencil. It's full of images that feel ancient yet oddly futuristic. Imagine Rivol there, pencil in hand, coaxing these forms onto the paper. The gray background feels like a soft fog, against these red figures. Are they creatures? Symbols? Maybe both. I like to think of these as being born out of mark-making itself, emerging through a process of trial and error. Look at how the lines are both shaky and sure, tentative yet bold. There's a beautiful ambiguity here, a sense of things not quite resolved but full of potential. I wonder if Rivol was looking at ancient cave paintings, letting those echoes inform her own visual language. Artists are always talking to each other across time, you know? Each mark is a gesture, a communication, a way of thinking through feeling. It’s never just one thing; it’s always a conversation.