Katja Oxman

A group of objects is arranged on an Islamic rug. Works of Asian art—a bowl, a coin, a reproduction of a Japanese screen—mix with postcards of Western works by Albrecht Dürer and Mark Rothko and with feathers, stamps, and an admission button from the Metropolitan Museum. This print is a meditation on the history of art.

Concerned with color relationships and arrangement, Oxman composes what she calls visual poems, which, while evocative, have no particular meaning. Pushing color aquatint to new levels of complexity, she created this image by printing three plates in registration: dark blue, red, and yellow. No black ink was used. The range of hues is the result of the blending of the three inks in different degrees of saturation.