For years I commuted
along highway one from Santa Cruz to Sausalito. In the dawn light the
curling, dried blossoms of anise flowers were silhouetted against the
fog. So many mornings were spent watching these tall plants growing in
the ditches along the road that I decided to devote a series of prints
to them. Over several months I etched the abstract shapes onto ten
separate zinc plates using a combination of sugar lift, aquatint and
acid line etch. These plates were used with monotypes on plexiglass
plates to create a variety of prints.
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