Lace
Lace is a response to my immersion in the Tasmanian/Lutruwita environment. As a visitor, the culture and imagery of ‘island’ seemed to impact every part of life in Tasmania. I found myself repeatedly noticing archipelago-like structures emerging in my drawing. These ranged from lichen isles down tree trunks to the webs of sea foam that seemed to me like charts, washed away with the next wave. Collecting these natural suggestions of micro-islands became the basis of my printmaking practice while in Tasmania. Lace captures the concentric circles of whitewash from the Tasman Peninsula, solidifying a brief collision between land and sea through a long printmaking process.
Lace was created using a combination of aquatinting and mezzotinting on copper. Originally rocked, the plate was finished with an aquatint before being scraped and burnished to reveal the seafoam from the velvet black.