Both graphics by the painter and lithographer Reinhold Budde display vertical stripes roughly infinger width, which have the effect of slightly indented or raised lines. These lightly vibrating reliefs which confuse the perception with their visual instability arise from the minimal modulations of light and dark that become invisible from close up; the impression of plasticity results from a lesser or greater density of tiny dark dots, printed in pencil-gray, something which may only be obtained by lithography. Automatically, both graphics lying side-by-side induce comparative viewing, the eye searching out differences in what is similar and with time, perceiving the varying articulations of the vertical stripes on the one graphic thinner, with the print somewhat stronger , and on the other wider, but at the same time, airier, less divided from one another. Reinhold Budde drew these strips freehand with a greasy litho crayon in one fell swoop across the stone, however. This is something which demands utmost concentration and calm in such a format, but which explains the slight deviations in the course and density of the individual stripes. This hardly detectible ductus causes two pictures, moving and, so to speak, breathing, to come about at the limits of what is visible, at the verge of barely being able to differentiate between them.