photography; photogravure on aluminium; darkroom experiments

In printmaking, technique can play a key part in the way that the message is perceived by the onlooker, more so if the technique has some sort of organic bond with the message. Here, I explore the alteration of visual memory through time by using aluminium photogravure. The only alterations that the images suffer are purely technical ones. I did nothing to change the image on the plate; instead, I changed the way I printed it, using different pressure levels, inking, and papers.

This process resulted in many variations of the same images. Somehow, this mirrors my own use of visual memory: rather than simply stocking images in my brain, I think about them, I use and reuse them, I intentionally modify them; hence, they never have a stable form, but are in an ongoing process of alteration.