The Robot Drawings Relief Prints (V.09)
The Robot Drawings Relief Prints (V.09)
The suite of ‘robotic relief drawings’ came from several industrial manufacturing plants. The heavy etched brass plates have geometric guides that a stylus would follow and a larger hand would cut that shape. The plates were used to cut various shapes and windows of manufactured designs. I like these pieces because they are a sort of an automatic drawing, or as Duchamp would say a chance drawing. The lines and shapes have nothing to do with making artwork. Looking at these I thought they would make interesting relief prints if inked up and ran through an etching press. There are about 30 different designs and I made an edition of three. One edition remains and this is it. I will list individual prints separately. The plates are so deeply etched that you can see the embossing of the paper in the back (pictured). I rolled these with oil based ink and printed them on American Masters paper with a natural deckle edge. Measures 22’ x 30” signed