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With your fingertips you can summon images to a screen, crop them, then send them to a printer that will reproduce them in seconds. The ease of modern printing skips over centuries of artistry and ingenuity that developed to capture and reproduce images.
Travel back a half century, or centuries to experiment with the parts of making prints.
A century ago Anna Adkins mastered the art of tracing silhouettes of leaves with sunlight on chemically sensitive paper…and thusphotography was born. Four Centuries before that, Leonardo pressed a paper on a leaf and rubbed it with charcoal to record its delicate architecture. You can reproduce both these experiments.
~ Make a Gyotaku [ 魚拓], a print of a fish, that Samurai used to demonstrate their fishing artistry.
~ Learn to carve or scratch images in wood or copper or stone. Ink them. Press them on cloth or paper. And peel away your art.
~ Compose objects to ink and print.
Print to create, capture, and share art and messages.