Writings in Stone..........
Trying out something new for me..........Taking prints on paper , using black ink , from locally found stones called " laja" which I worked on with my simple tools making patterns , lines and more..........Writings in stone , scratching in history and "recording" it on paper using my own hands rubbing in the applied ink into the moist paper..........Touching this old material ,sensing it and passing the newly made "writings" on to the paper which is soft ,weak and totally opposite in quality compared to stone.......The heavy stone does not move at all while I am pressing the paper gently because when I use to much force the paper will come apart..........easy does it , caressing the paper with my big hands thinking of the underlaying ink on the surface of the stone getting an opposite image of what I "wrote".A strange process of hard and soft , effort and patience , pressure and muscles all the while thinking in my mind.............The final resu