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Prints about Infinite Space 

These prints came about from considering the way the mind can roam through time and space.

They therefore are a development of the work about the body and think about how infinity can be contained within something relatively small. This was developed to think about the way that ‘the sublime’ is depicted generally through making vast work. My intentions were to make small plates which might exhibit some of the qualities of the sublime, despite their size and here chose to think about the expansiveness of space.

 

Lost series

The prints in this series were a response a quote by Thomas McEvilley

 

“The sublime however is always outside the comfort zone; it is everything that will not allow one to be comfortable in one’s existence that threatens ones security and injects chaos into harmony and order”

 

So I decided to work outside my comfort zone, leaving the initial etched marks to chance and re-etching each plate many times in response to the previous marks made. I hope that these small prints suggest the vastness of space and, being made from deeply bitten steel, the weight I associate with emptiness.

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