Plate Poem, 2022
Sugarlift on recycled plate back, edition of 5
I really liked how the back of one of my plates came out, with rubber glove prints and scraped lines. It suggested ruled paper to me, so I painted what I was thinking about onto it in sugarlift, which is a relatively fast and intuitive process. See videos below.
I’m really susceptible to working in monochrome. I didn’t have a lot of my nice peach fabriano paper left, so I thought a limited edition in a bright blue, signed in colored pencil, could feel fresh and combat my chromophobia.
This piece is challenging to photograph, partially because the plate itself isn’t a perfect square (kind of rhomboid).
I paint in a sugary solution onto a zinc plate, writing backwards. I didn’t prepare any text beforehand, just responded.
After covering the letters with a thinned varnish blackened with ink, I pour hot water onto the plate. This makes the painted words peel away