As I promised to my class... Here are few examples from our first project in Etching. For this assignment students inherited a plate leftover from a former student from a previous etching class. The project requires a conceptual and compositional overhaul of the appropriated plate to the point where students can claim the work as their own. It is a good beginning exercise in getting over the hesitation in investing oneself into scraping and burnishing on the zinc. It is a requirement to have half the image developed through erasure and the other half in new additive techniques. Sara Huger's "Internalized" (above) appropriated the silhouette of a face and she added the subtle lighting and violent scraping to the eyes. It ended up having this poetic resonance similar to Enrique Martinez Celaya's work or an Arnulf Rainer drawing on photograph.
Below is Mike Chorey's "Herman Pt. 2" a nice AR Penck-esque creepy image of a guy who haunts dreams. Printing in color was not an option, but since this ended up monochromatic and hand worked it is a sucessfully acceptable "breaking of the rules".
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