making a print
I walk almost everyday, wherever I am. I collect rusted, flattened fragments of metal, and sometimes, plastic.
I press these found objects into a styrofoam tray – those trays of meat, vegetables and fruits we find at our supermarkets. And then I ink the plates and press them into paper.
I try to use only the objects found on the day that I create the plate/s to make prints. But my collection of curved and jagged twisted pieces does grow.
This morning I found the (lst photo) two round ones and I had found the long one two days ago. I hammered them into the styrofoam so an impression would be made of each; first the round brown one, which is plastic strangely enough, ended up on top (like a moon – very faint impression because it’s soft plastic), then the round white one with two jagged pieces – hard plastic – better impression – at the bottom of the plate, and finally the long rusted piece, hammered three times into three vertical lines. Voila my plate (2nd image) is ready to go.
