Paysage indéfini 1963

Nono Reinhold made this print, *Paysage indéfini,* using etching techniques, a kind of controlled scraping and biting into a metal plate to make an image. I can imagine Reinhold hunched over the plate, carefully building up these textures and shapes bit by bit. The palette is muted, almost monochromatic, a dance of grays and creams. It's a kind of landscape, but one that exists more in the mind than in reality. Is it a field? Or maybe an aerial view of some strange, undiscovered planet? There are these dense clusters of marks, then more open areas where the surface seems to breathe. These little squares huddle together, they want to make some kind of meaning. Reinhold, like many of us, is in conversation with past artists, I think, and yet has made this completely her own. It’s a reminder that art-making is an ongoing dialogue, a beautiful, messy, and uncertain process.