TerraPen Drypoint Print
In a print room workshop, I was allowed to test image making using a TerraPen machine. Playing around with a variety of settings, we manipulated photographs into lines that could be sent to and read by the TerraPen, which in this case was fitted with a needle. This allowed it to engrave our linework into copper plates.
We inked up the finished plates, before putting them through presses in the same you would any other intaglio print. On first glance, the print just looks like squiggles, but within them there hides an image.
Here it is next to a different print of the same motif, made a week prior with a hand-etched plate. Their visual qualities are distinctly different, and although the earlier parts of the hybrid process was less physical, they both presented challenges and pitfalls for experimentation.