Etching, Aquatint.

A selection of photo etchings– including both Skylight photopolymer and Solar plates.

/vis.tɑ̃.bwaʁ/

noun. a term coined by Jacques Perret (Le Machin, 1955), referring to a banal yet mysterious object-- one that seems to possess neither name nor function, but remains oddly familiar.

A series of line-etchings that have accompanied the artist's sculpture project of the same title: Vistemboir.

Ten images of a single artillery shell fragment that was picked up by our neighbors during wartime (2014) and kept by my father in our family home. I photographed it there one late afternoon, 6 years later. The long shadows cast by the afternoon sun helped produce images intended to echo Rorschach inkblot tests.