Window - Solar Plate Etching

Description

This print, made from a solar plate, was inspired by a stairway in a mysterious old house, leading to an attic window. It is a hand-pulled print, on archival rag paper.
This is a unique print because every time the plate is inked, the outcome is different.

Image size: 2 1/2" x 2"
Paper size: 6" x 5 1/2"

There are several steps to making a solar plate. First you make a drawing on a transparency. The transparency is put over the solar plate and the plate is exposed to UV light. The light burns the image onto the plate. The plate is then washed off and hardened again in UV light. Next the plate is inked, wiped and covered with a damp piece of paper, and run through the printing press. The press transfers the image from the plate to the paper.

Added on Sep 16, 2009

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