Grass
drypoint carborundum print on paper, 62,5 × 98 cm, 2010
Seven impressions · Zinc
The works, newest first. Thirty years of looking: the wad behind the dike at Hornhuizen, grain and reed, still lifes of quince and medlar, a few boats at night. Each plate is a work. Each impression is a unique pull — ink mixed again, a particular pressure, a moment on the press that will not repeat.
Printmaking here is not an edition. Drypoint closes under the press; the lines have to be opened after every pull. Colour is mixed by hand from stand oil and pigment, so a line can read almost black while a plane still holds colour. Beside the plates sit the photographs — cyanotype, kallitype, gum, silver — treated as made objects, not files. The techniques open their own rooms. The catalogue stays one chronology.
drypoint carborundum print on paper, 62,5 × 98 cm, 2010
Seven impressions · Zinc
drypoint carborundum print on paper, 59 × 39 cm, 2010
Nine impressions · Zinc
drypoint carborundum print on paper, 33 × 32 cm, 2010
Twelve impressions · Zinc
monotype on paper, 25 × 26,5 cm, 2010
Five impressions · Lead
monotype on paper, 18 × 17 cm, 2010
Two impressions · Lead
monotype on paper, 23,5 × 15 cm, 2010
Three impressions · Lead
monotype on paper, 24,7 × 25 cm, 2010
Five impressions · Lead
monotype on paper, 19,2 × 21 cm, 2010
Three impressions · Lead
monotype on paper, 19,2 × 21 cm, 2010
Eight impressions · Lead