Spiral 1934

Anton Prinner made this print, called "Spiral," with dark ink on paper. It has these constellations of stars and planets floating across it, like an open field. You can see the movement of the artist’s hand as it shifts and emerges through trial, error, and intuition. I can just imagine Prinner, maybe in the dead of night, scratching away at the plate with a tool in hand. How did he feel making this? He must have felt connected to something bigger, something about how the universe works. And those marks—they’re not perfect, not smooth. They're full of texture and feeling. It gives the whole image this raw, honest quality. That one big circle there, with the smaller circles inside it - it’s like a world within a world. And the way Prinner uses the ink— sometimes thick, sometimes thin—it creates depth and shadow. We’re all just riffing off each other across time, taking little bits and pieces and making something new, right? Painting is like that too, just a conversation that never really ends. It embraces not knowing and always leaves room for something else to happen.