Artwork > Press Bed Print series

Background Noise (1)
Intaglio, chine collé.
24.5 x 18.5" (each)
1999
Background Noise (2)
Intaglio, chine collé.
24.5 x 18.5" (each)
1999
Background Noise (3)
Intaglio, chine collé.
24.5 x 18.5" (each)
1999
Background Noise (4)
Intaglio, chine collé.
24.5 x 18.5" (each)
1999
Background Noise (5)
Intaglio, chine collé.
24.5 x 18.5" (each)
1999
Background Noise (6)
Intaglio, chine collé.
24.5 x 18.5" (each)
1999
Background Noise (7)
Intaglio, chine collé.
24.5 x 18.5" (each)
1999
Background Noise (8)
Intaglio, chine collé.
24.5 x 18.5" (each)
1999
Background Noise (9)
Intaglio, chine collé.
24.5 x 18.5" (each)
1999
Background Noise (10)
Intaglio, chine collé.
24.5 x 18.5" (each)
1999
Background Noise (11)
Intaglio, chine collé.
24.5 x 18.5" (each)
1999
Background Noise (12)
Intaglio, chine collé.
24.5 x 18.5" (each)
1999
Background Noise (installation view - before)
intaglio prints, chine colle, with printing press bed
24.5 x 18.5" (each)
1999
Background Noise (installation view - after)
intaglio prints, chine colle, with printing press bed
24.5 x 18.5" (each)
1999
Background Noise (detail of #5)
Intaglio, chine collé.
1999
Background Noise (detail view - before)
intaglio prints, chine colle, with printing press bed
24.5 x 18.5" (each)
1999
Background Noise (detail view - after)
intaglio prints, chine colle, with printing press bed
24.5 x 18.5" (each)
1999
Background Noise (detail of #9)
Intaglio, chine collé.
1999

A sequence of prints that uses the press bed, (the surface onto which a printing matrix/plate is normally placed in order to be printed), as its own self contained printing surface. Inked (intaglio) impressions are taken directly off the machined metal bed of printing presses – metal surfaces inscribed by industrial process, by use and chance.

In a sense, these are prints where the press prints itself - a kind of circular identity seeking to transcend itself.