Some other tangents

I went a bit plate crazy this week.  I made another one on boxboard with sand in the shape of a figure (as seen at the site), I cut out some box board into long shapes, adding tissue paper texture, gesso, and carved lines.  And I made a test using a small square of screen board with carved lines. I was quite pleased with this print of a couple of those plus a ghost.  I like the river of space running through the middle, and the contrast between the square and the organic edges.

Following this, I made another large plate on screen board using an etching needle to carve lines.  I really enjoyed making this plate, it felt a little bit zen, like when I carve woodcut.  I have tuned in to the surface layer of the rocks at the cliff face now, where there are thin layers of lichens of some plant material. These felt a lot more delicate than the first layers of rock. A quieter more careful approach was required.

I made a print, then flipped the plate and layered over a ghost print. The result feels like a mirror or a lake: some reflective body of water.  I actually don't quite know what happened, but it has that restful feeling that I had when making it.

Another promising result when layering it over an earlier ghost print, and then adding a layer of transparent orange.  A small success capturing the feeling of an ecosystem here: intricate, inter-dependant, complex.