That about sums up what I’ve been doing recently. I’ve been participating in some APUG print exchanges and the 20th round of the postcard exchange. I’ve also spent all of this current semester at university working on photopolymergravures. The important distinction between photopolymergravures and photogravures is that I use a sheet of pre-sensitised material, and not a sheet of copper that I impart a photograph onto via acid etching and a carbon tissue resist. Admittedly I took the coward’s way out, but I couldn’t source all the materials for real Gravure printing on a student’s budget…
You’ll be receiving details and photographs on all of this shortly. But for now, I’ve been addressing postcards all day and I’m sleepy. So have some more of the result of my reading;
“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”
-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-5, chapter 3.