Mezzotint, 2022

9 × 12 inches (cut to bleed print)

Mezzotint rendered based on paper landscape maquette partially covered in dark carborundum grit. This expresses the fragility of economic and ecological structural systems in the coal regions, subjected to the harm of a heavy industrial past and a community whose former extractive industry has abandoned them. The carborundum functions as an agent with which to bury something: a memory or difficult history which is purposefully forgotten. Through subtractive intaglio processes and mezzotint, I slowly recover these forms from a black ground to echo the record of wear on the landscape and its local communities.