Artwork description:

This print was constructed first from four etching plates printed using an intaglio press, then three layers of transparent colours screen printed on top.
A spiral is created both with the etching and through screenprinting masking a spiral using circles in decreasing size.
It reminded me of 'bokeh' which in photography, bokeh is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in out-of-focus parts of an image. Bokeh has also been defined as "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light". Differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape cause very different bokeh effects.
Although this is not a realistic image of bokeh, it is my interpretation. As each layer was printed it created new colours when areas were masked out.

Materials used:

photopolymer plates and screenprint with printmaking inks paper on Somerset printmaking paper

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