Dorothy Cross

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Tear is a limited box set of five intaglio prints with cover sheet by Dorothy Cross.  The artist isolated small sections of an old engraving – a page from a bible found in her family home – and combined the detailed engraved lines with colour photographs of the sea taken near her home in Galway.  The result is a remarkable series of poetic images from which parts of the body emerge through a skeletal topography of engraved lines and photographic stills of a restless ocean.  Old and new technology combine and narrative and nature are momentarily stilled.  Each image is hand printed on Moulin du Gue paper (58 x 76.5cm) and is numbered and signed by the artist in an edition of 40.
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