Jackson Pollock once recalled, “. . . there was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn’t have any beginning or end. He didn’t mean it as a compliment, but it was. It was a fine compliment.” Pollock's art catapulted out from the picture plane’s strict confines and flourished with greater complexity; printmaking provided a venue to test out methods and imagery seen in later paintings. For example, this work, and other experiments in printmaking during the period, anticipated poured paintings and drawings of subsequent years. Likely produced as a New Year’s card for a good friend, this work is comprised of unique elements and was printed directly by the artist.