What breath remains, II

Etching on paper, 2024

A quiet meditation of what is left behind when a project finishes. My 'Dockyard Diary' series finished in December, and left behind 5L of nearly spent saline sulphate solution.

To dispose of the solution safely, it must be neutralised. Rather than use scrap metal, which would then be discarded, I left four steel plates in the mordant - this third plate for 48 hours, two days after the first one went in.

The marks are a meditation of time passing in the act of printmaking. There are periods of lull, slowness and waiting, inherent to the practice, and in this case, the act of neutralising what has been nearly spent, but not quite.

Steel plate, printed on Hahnemuhle white etching paper.
Plate size: 12.5cm x 15.5cm
Paper size: approx. 24.0cm x 24.0cm
Edition of 10

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