Trapped fly on 2 light-sensitive plates 1981

Hubertine Heijermans made this print entitled "Trapped Fly on 2 light-sensitive plates" sometime around 1981. Look at the blue background of the print, it’s like a sky, or a window maybe. The light makes the glass shine, and it’s almost like you can see the trapped fly, buzzing against it. I can only imagine what Hubertine was thinking when she made this print. Maybe she was thinking about light, and the way it reveals things. How it can trap us, too. Those linear shapes all around the fly - are they rays of light? Or the marks of something flying, buzzing around? The artist really gets across the feeling of being caught, doesn’t she? The way the fly is so clearly rendered, but the background is all light and wispy. Artists are always in conversation, you know? Sharing ideas across time. And in this little print, Hubertine made something beautiful and strange and deeply evocative.