Alpha Series, Notorious Print

Etching ink on Fine Art Paper Velin BFK Rives. (Arches paper mill). Printmaking, relief process. Original signed small limited edition by the artist. Art with a story: Notorious. From Medieval Latin notōrius well-known, from nōtus known, noscere to know. Break the code! Ultrapulp Alpha series, an original limited edition printmaking on fine art paper, appropriates texts from sources such as corporate business, history, or through pop culture expressive language. It uses twist or unexpected intervals between words and letters to fracture meaning. Break the code, here the words are stacked up as black lettering, disrupting our ability to read them as a fluid sentence. Hand typesetting, printmaking. The artistic process of making the print forms, selecting and tearing the paper, inking the matrix, hand printing each individual piece, drying and signing each, is a very personal and tactile experience. When it comes to paper, the embossed impressions made in the paper by 540 pt letters blocks make a typical and unique relief.