Daylight Savings 1924

'Daylight Savings' is an etching by George William Eggers, and just look at the sheer density of marks he made! It feels so charged. I can only imagine Eggers bending over this plate, working and reworking the scene, pushing the contrasts to such extremes. I feel for the artist, and I’m wondering if he was frustrated by the way daylight slips away, or maybe he was trying to capture the feeling of twilight—that dramatic tension between light and shadow. The image isn’t just about capturing a place, but also about the mood and atmosphere of a particular time. With Eggers's network of hatched lines and tonal gradations, I can feel the exchange of ideas between printmakers across time, how one artist inspires another, and it makes me wonder what would happen if I tried the same?