The soft ground etching is a fast technique that reproduces a drawing executed with pencil more or less hard. Losing the finesse of a etching track, the engraving acquires, in its velvety tones, a pleasant immediacy. The young man with the turban comes out of the imagination to dialogue with the real world.
Zinc plate: 92 mm x 112 mm (base x height), 2015
Etching on Pescia paper, black ink Luxe Charbonnel, printed on a star press by André Beuchat, paper size: 250 mm x 350 mm
