Digital Printing

Last week I finally had an appointment at Martha Street Studio with the digital printing technician to get some digital printing done on their fabulous large scale Epson printer. I hope to successfully incorporate some of the early maps I have come across in my research as a light background layer. I have one sketch map of the Chaco by Seymour Hawtrey published in the SAMS magazine in 1910, one by Wilfrid Barbrooke Grubb printed in the SAMS magazine in 1910, and one map by Walter Regehr of the Makthlawaya Anglican mission station from 1979. Maps are very much part of the colonization process, creating a record of accessing and opening up of the land, and I think they will lend themselves well as a possible underlying background layer in some of my prints. I am printing an on translucent Asian paper, which will allow me to move around and layer other printing plates on top. I'll write more about the printing process once I get to that stage.