Albatross 1973

This print, Albatross, was made by Stanley William Hayter and it’s like a visual symphony in blues, purples, and reds. I imagine him pulling the print and watching those colors mix and mingle in surprising ways, maybe a bit like jazz. It's pretty clear Hayter was having a conversation with movement, experimenting with how line and color can create a sense of flow. I can almost feel the wind beneath the wings of that albatross. Hayter was really into surrealism, and you can see that here in the way the forms seem to float and shift. It makes me think about other artists like Yves Tanguy or even Joan Miró. Artists, you know, they're always riffing off each other, passing ideas back and forth across time. Painting is a weird and wonderful way of understanding our place in the world, embracing the unknown.