John Babcock

With the strike of a mallet, I embossed the soft, thick, wet paper with an acrylic plate. The plate is made from strips of acrylic and wood. The paper is a lamination of three or more sheets. The colored pigment is in the paper. I layered a small viridian green sheet on top of a graphite and carbon-black pigmented sheet made from manila hemp fiber. The iron-red and ochre cotton fiber sheet was placed on top, and all of them were lightly pressed together in preparation for the final pressure.

My subject matter is usually about emotion, discovery, and documentation. The repetitive lines remind me of the evidence or declaration of information. Text in a book and strata in the earth’s topography are lines that seem similar to me. The striking of the plate reveals the document’s hidden information.

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