Make yourself small and imagine the beauty of skating across a copper plate, maybe with rusty skates, and seeing incisions that result from this action. You'll see there is a certain fragrance to a line cut with a tool. Some lines will be staccato flecks, all waiting to be filled with ink. Scrawling, scratching, drawing, dripping upon, and otherwise talking to a plate of metal illustrates the true nature of this medium.
So it's a kind of 3-part harmony: the artist, a metal plate and a device to make marks. All of these artists have clearly fallen for the seductive elements of this art form.
Photoetching on eight sheets of paper, printed in grey.
Image size: 244 x 43"; paper size: 30½ x 43" each panel. Edition 15.
Portfolio of six hard ground etchings printed in gray.
Image size: 19 x 26"; paper size: 19 x 26". Edition 25.