August 10, 1949 1949

Boris Margo made this color woodcut on August 10, 1949, and it feels like a memory, right? The landscape’s built with these thin, horizontal textures, a sea of green and grey below a horizon line, topped by a rusty red sky. Everything is implied, but it's all there! I like to think about how Margo layered these colors, each one adding a little something different. It’s like he's building a world, one layer at a time. Look closely at the horizon. See how he scratched those tiny, white lines? It feels like light shimmering on the water, a fleeting moment caught in a web of marks. Margo's earlier work was more overtly surreal, but here, he’s finding the surreal in the everyday. You could compare Margo's process with someone like Arthur Dove, who also captured the feeling of a place. Art's always this dialogue, a conversation across time and space. Anyway, I'm just happy to be a part of it.