Aquatint and salt bite etching on Stonehenge paper,
Collaboration with Michael L Dean (d. 2012)
Sourced from a photograph my father took of me on a beach near Pacifica, the image holds still in a way memory rarely does, a small figure hunched over tide pool tools, back turned to the sky. The print sits somewhere between document and memory, held loosely enough to let the process speak alongside the source.
The aquatint gives the sand and sky their grain, and the salt bite pulled texture up through the plate in patches that read like weather, invited accident finding its way into something that started as a straightforward likeness.
6x6' platemark
Aquatint and salt bite etching on Stonehenge paper,
Collaboration with Michael L Dean (d. 2012)
Sourced from a photograph my father took of me on a beach near Pacifica, the image holds still in a way memory rarely does, a small figure hunched over tide pool tools, back turned to the sky. The print sits somewhere between document and memory, held loosely enough to let the process speak alongside the source.
The aquatint gives the sand and sky their grain, and the salt bite pulled texture up through the plate in patches that read like weather, invited accident finding its way into something that started as a straightforward likeness.