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Etching / lithograph / heliorelief woodcut prints
The nine vertical prints of Canto V are an experience in blue, a kind of high alpine blue that is spiritual and earthly at one time. The black or white drawings contain, or float within, or are under, the blueness that is as transparent and individually marked with swirls and mottles as a watercolor painting. Within this fluid extent, blocks of tonally consistent blue recede and come forward, and constellations of fingerprints drift. Each element is so finely pitched in shape, color and tone, as to be in continuous struggle to resolve a balance with the others. With the prints torn to the edges of the imagery, shorn of clues, it is difficult to discern exactly how the works of art were made.
