ONLINE: Luca Nicholas: In Bloom
in bloom is a series of etchings on diaphanous mulberry paper depicting detritus that one might find littering the footpath alongside a gate or hedge: bits of food, pill packets, shrubs, sticking plasters. In order to create the images, Luca Nicholas has rolled the found objects themselves through the press, causing them to smash into the soft ground preparation on the plates.
In the in bloom etchings, each object becomes a complete image. The resulting pieces are reminiscent of botanical artworks, such as the engravings of plants collected during the 1768鈥�71 voyage of the Endeavour under Captain James Cook, and later pictures of Aotearoa flora by Sarah Featon and Georgina Hetley.
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in bloom is a series of etchings on diaphanous mulberry paper depicting detritus that one might find littering the footpath alongside a gate or hedge: bits of food, pill packets, shrubs, sticking plasters. In order to create the images, Luca Nicholas has rolled the found objects themselves through the press, causing them to smash into the soft ground preparation on the plates.
In the in bloom etchings, each object becomes a complete image. The resulting pieces are reminiscent of botanical artworks, such as the engravings of plants collected during the 1768鈥�71 voyage of the Endeavour under Captain James Cook, and later pictures of Aotearoa flora by Sarah Featon and Georgina Hetley.
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