printed on New York Times from Friday, April 22, 1892, and black printmaking paper
Printed directly onto a 130-year-old newspaper page, the etching layers a monumental sequoia stump, complete with the ladder and figures once used to show scale for tourists, over columns of 1892 financial news and ads for ocean voyages to Florida.
The paper's own burned, browned edges are left intact, no attempt to clean up or trim away the evidence of its age. History sits under history here: the newsprint carries its own record of a moment in time, and the image printed over it carries another, a tree already ancient when that newspaper was fresh off the press.
The black ground it's mounted on lets the warm, foxed paper read almost like a relic set behind glass.
Etching with aquatint and salt bite
printed on New York Times from Friday, April 22, 1892, and black printmaking paper
Printed directly onto a 130-year-old newspaper page, the etching layers a monumental sequoia stump, complete with the ladder and figures once used to show scale for tourists, over columns of 1892 financial news and ads for ocean voyages to Florida.
The paper's own burned, browned edges are left intact, no attempt to clean up or trim away the evidence of its age. History sits under history here: the newsprint carries its own record of a moment in time, and the image printed over it carries another, a tree already ancient when that newspaper was fresh off the press.
The black ground it's mounted on lets the warm, foxed paper read almost like a relic set behind glass.