Rag Prints
A series of 9 prints
An idea is best found at hand...
In order to better learn the process of etching, I gave myself the daily practice of starting and completing one print per day.
(Cloth of little worth).
Each day I picked up a common shop rag (used around the print studio for clean up) and folded, arranged, composed it into a form I was satisfied with. The rag, which was pressed into a palette of rolled out printing ink, was then placed on a copper plate and run through the press. The resulting inked impression of the rag on the copper plate was etched, aquatinted, proofed and editioned.
...then lost in the making.
Repeated for 9 consecutive days, this work of everyday consequence exhausted itself — leaving some other days to come.