My partner and I have exchanged prints.
Mine, taken from the paper pulp models exploring my clenched fist, was etched using a soft ground onto zinc and then further etched with aquatint to give a variety of tone.
My partner, Julie’s screen print, stemmed from her research into the interior of lungs. The colours used were chosen because of her investigation into the colours within blood and raw meat. The shape of Julie’s print has perfect clean lines, and is very successful. I have needed to think hard about how to work with this and translate into my print language. I have considered laying dark lines of varying thickness and varied tone across the print, a little like twigs, obscuring the image slightly. But I have abandoned this idea. I have settled on the idea of multiplication (as in cells dividing) and addition of details and tone to the wonderful shape, she has created.
