Etching on Zinc Plate, chine colle page from The Origin of the Species
What should be a tree trunk splitting into roots or branches comes through scorched and fractured, where the metal stopped behaving. Printed on a page from Darwin's Origin of the Species, the words underneath show through the damage the way old growth shows through scar tissue. Sometimes the best documentation of a process is the moment it broke.
6X6" platemark
Etching on Zinc Plate, chine colle page from The Origin of the Species
What should be a tree trunk splitting into roots or branches comes through scorched and fractured, where the metal stopped behaving. Printed on a page from Darwin's Origin of the Species, the words underneath show through the damage the way old growth shows through scar tissue. Sometimes the best documentation of a process is the moment it broke.