Etchings in copper:
The following etchings tell a story of girls accused of and denounced for withcraft. Softground on copper, 9”x12”
Oil-based monotypes, all roughly 11” x 15”
In the body of etchings below I built figurative kinetic puppets out of discarded materials – bones, garbage, tinsel, bits of broken furniture, etc. I installed these puppets so that natural forces (gravity, wind, rain, snow, heat, and animals) animated them to autonomously inscribe marks onto copper etching plates. These plates were covered with a sensitive coating (called a ‘ground’) that documented the sculpture’s act of creation. The results of these inscribed marks are printed alongside my own rendering of each figure.
First image: a documentation of the process, photo by Jacob Koestler
All etchings are 15" x 20," soft ground and engraving
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Relief prints carved from linoleum or birch plywood, and printed in oil-based ink
