I've used all my etched lino tiles (new and old) to make a print as large as the flat bed printer, on a roll of paper.
The tiles were all inked up in black, the roll of paper cut to size, sprayed with water, blotted.
This is a huge step for me - a completely different scale and type from the carefully crafted etchings I did last year. The large scale removes the humility of the marks, makes them more significant by increasing the size of the overall print; they become an enlargement of the intimate. And at the same time this increase in size has freed me up in the print making process. Whilst the acid etching has been unpredictable and essentially uncontrollable, there has to be careful control in the printing of this scale. There is a real engagement of the physical with this process - it reminds me of the actual procedure of building.
The tiles were all inked up in black, the roll of paper cut to size, sprayed with water, blotted.
This is a huge step for me - a completely different scale and type from the carefully crafted etchings I did last year. The large scale removes the humility of the marks, makes them more significant by increasing the size of the overall print; they become an enlargement of the intimate. And at the same time this increase in size has freed me up in the print making process. Whilst the acid etching has been unpredictable and essentially uncontrollable, there has to be careful control in the printing of this scale. There is a real engagement of the physical with this process - it reminds me of the actual procedure of building.
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| print size approx 1000x1500mm |
