The Death of Art, the Birth of Art.

For the first plate I've ever created, hard ground etching was used to create a plate that printed this image:

The image itself is inspired by photocopied portraits; in this case - photocopies of someone's face.

The plate was then gradually erased and reworked and erased, etc., to create a steady destruction of an image, in turn creating an entirely new image that possesses different conceptual merit.

I find that the resulting images are more engaging than the original, and that by essentially "killing" my original intentions, I have created something totally new and novel in it's own way.

Here are some examples of the process:

More to come with experimenting with the same plate.