Stilleven met gemberpot en lampionplant 1901 - 1935

Wilhelmine Kist made this sweet little etching, *Still Life with Ginger Pot and Lantern Plant*, with some kind of metal implement, maybe a needle, to scratch the image into the metal plate. It's all about the mark-making, that scratchy, diggy, on-the-surface kind of drawing. I find myself drawn to the texture of the ginger pot, how Kist manages to create so much depth and roundness with such tiny strokes. It’s almost like she's tickling the surface of the pot into existence. The way the light catches those lantern plants is so delicate, like they might float away any second. Kist was working around the same time as Giorgio Morandi, who also made lots of still-life paintings of pots and vases. Maybe they would have enjoyed chatting about the hidden lives of objects and the stories they can tell with just a few simple lines. Anyway, I find this print totally charming – a quiet moment captured with a lot of love.