Nieuwjaarswens van Kornél Révész 1934

Kornél Révész made this New Year's card, or Nieuwjaarswens, sometime around 1933, likely as a small etching. You can see the care Révész took in crafting this image. He has rendered the body of the figure in cross hatching, a mass of tiny marks, and the blowing of the bubble 1935, a hopeful vision of the future, all from a horn. The figure sits with an hourglass, she is both time and outside of time. I wonder if Révész also felt like he was blowing air and hoping to create something lasting and beautiful? And, that it would emerge through touch, pressure, the give and take of the tool in his hand against the plate? There’s so much vulnerability in making things. We all just want to be seen, and what better way than through the gift of a hopeful new year's vision?