Self Portrait 2023 - photogravure print - The Weekly Edition

Self Portrait 2023 - photogravure print - The Weekly EditionMaking self portraits is challenging. Many of my friends who regularly make meaningful work that include themselves already know this. For me I only do them occasionally and between these session I suffer a bit of amnesia. The challenge for me is making work that speaks to my state of being at the moment, works compositionally, and is honest enough to be important but not enough to be embarrassing. This hand pulled photogravure print is made with

I feel like this helps turn the viewers eyes to the subject of my gaze

Later they often collected these portraits after viewing the proofs

details in the making of the object at hand

and mid-black inks on Hahnemühle copperplate paper

Edition will be signed by the artist

arrived with a wonderful 1940's coiffure

12 hand pulled photogravure prints by Ray Bidegain | Cascabel Press

Hand-pulled photogravure print is made with Gamblin Bone Black

It is a quiet place with a beautiful landscape

and ruby red inks on Hahnemühle copperplate paper

I continue exploring myself

Maybe she is simply daydreaming