embossing – Page 4

Thou lonesome one

Here is a fragment from Thus spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche that I really like.
I wanted to give rise to the first word of the text, thus I drew it from a typography and made it half embossed, half engraved on metal.

The remaining part of the text is calligraphied with a fraktur, I felt it was the accurate script for it.

As usual, to see the whole work, have a look to the gallery.

not really

I told you recently about an embossing I intented to use within a calligraphic work, here is the result.

I’m not happy with it… at all. I’ll have to try something else.

Moon

First try with embossing on an old plate of zinc with a carbon paper between it an the embossed paper.

I’m quite happy with it, I intend to complete it with a fragment from the Satiricon by Petronius, the bit that starts with : “As when, in the sleep-bringing night dreams sport with the wandering eyes …”

XIIth century initials as XXIst works

Quite happy with the result produced by the combination of embossing and ink experimented on Julien Gracq’s text, I decided to reedit the experience with initials copied from XIIth century French manuscripts.
This time I used walnut stain instead of India ink and I find the result just as interesting, judge for yourself.

the inexhaustible voice of desire

A new work, fragment of Julien Gracq’s Rivage des Syrtes.

It was long and difficult, I did a lot of drafts (more than usual) before I managed to produce this result.
As often now, it was done on a paper from the Kéréon mill.