Perfection is boring, artist molluscs are draftsnails.

Copper plate slug etching

Bad leaves make good prints.

A brilliant and thought-provoking snail is a skillful draftsman, making sense of dead leaves for perfect soft ground copper >etching prints.

botanical print

Skeletonized leaf for botanical prints

Snails make amazing skeletonized leaves by etching out the green layer of freshly dead leaves, artistic slugs cautiously avoid barking up the wrong tree.

Photography imitates everything and expresses nothing.

Paul Gauguin

botanical leaf copper etching

Skeletonizing leaves helps copper plate soft-ground etching exposing the graphic design of botanical leaves vein skeletons.

好景不长

Copper plate slug etching

Snail art is distinguished by its deep feeling for dead leaves and a peaceful pilgrimage in search of art. Copper plate etching of snail-eaten leaf (La Réunion island).

Each simple image is a narrative that tells a story full of absurdity and uncertainty.

botanical leaf copper etching

Wall art.

A good thing doesn't last forever.

juneberry leaf soft ground etching

Geometry of saskatoon berry leaves (juneberry)

Since the sense of vision has developed as an instrument of survival, it is keyed to its task.

It just feels like an inescapable death trap for the post-minimalist art movement.

alnifolia berry leaves

Not yet ready for soft ground etching.

Nature is so reassuringly incredible

Nature is so reassuringly incredible.

Each simple image is a narrative that tells a story full of absurdity and uncertainty.

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