Freedom

Lost plate engraving dry point, carborundum, aluminum

Portfolio 2019 | Freedom, The Intrusive Vastness

The freedom series consists of 12 large format engravings (61 cm X 45 cm) on aluminum plate and developed in a graphic workshop edges, to the lost plate with the drypoint technique, using the scraper and burnisher which are basic tools of metal engraving, in this case on aluminum is a malleable metal and easy to work. The idea is from the first drawing on the plate it is finished and printed and reworked and printed again and so it continues without a serial print run, this lost plate technique the image is lost on the plate and being almost a single print when reworking again and again and can continue to infinity or be resolved according to the artist. The combination with carburide and cradle is similar to the black manner and mezzotint however not exactly, the merit if not the suggestion in this great technique and finish that is achieved after hard work of intaglio and drawing with a burin and the aforementioned tools.

The development of the engraving was very free and gratifying. The image of horses or a stable dimension the idea of freedom of execution and theme that refers me to the caves of Lascaux and Altamira, a cave graphic that is dimensioned as the series continues as the figures are lost and ending with other presences that between line, shadow, light and stain determine the graphic force that determined me to complete this graphic project.

The visual result is suggestive and transversal, generating a unique and unrepeatable series, hence the value of the effort of the rotogravure work and printing as a fundamental part of experimentation.