Here are nine etchings of one zinc plate I made while working at Atelier 17 of William Stanley Hayter in 1978-1979 , oops these were printed later at Joelle Serve’s ( une eleve ) de lui, that I printed in 1980 May 29-30 -Jeudi and Vendredi Thursday and Friday as I was the manager there when she was not there at her Atelier 54- some of the prints on Rice paper, some on Arches paper!

Here are theur nine stories - 9 prints of the same plate done on a zinc plate ysing an oil-grease thick red pencil to suggest a shape but not completely define it so that i had so many more liberties in printing it and letting this looser shape have more possible interpretations. Done by me a when i heard that my Uncle Mort ( short for Mortimer ) had passed away in California. Done with both color printer's ink and black printer's ink. This was one of three or four plates I did in the dame manner with the oil eax oencil all on zinc plates. I call them artist's proofs because they are all different. I used both Japanese paper given to me as well as Arches paper. The dates are : 1) le 29 Mai, 1980 , jeudi Serie #2 on Japanese rice paper. 2) le 30 Mai, 1980, Vendredi serie #7 on Japanese rice oaper given to me by one of the students from Japan 3) le 30 Mai, 1980 , Vendredi seeie 1 #10 on Japanese paper 4) le 29 Mai, 1980 Jeudi serie #3 on Japanese rice paper 5) le 30, 1980 , Vendredi serie #9 on Japanese rice paper 6) le 29 Mai, 1980 , Jeudi serie #4 on Japanese rice paper with blue etcher's ink on s roller and black ink for the background 7) le 30 Nai, 1080 , Vendredi serie # 6 on Japanese rice paper where i made a print without applhing fresh etcher's ink but used what remained from the previous print, a delicate subtle blue remains and a avcent of red that is pink now, all subtle. 8) le 30 Mai, 1980 , Vendredi serie 11 done on Arches paper where i used the ink still on the plate and did not roll any etcher's ink on it so black and antique white, 9) le 30 Mai 1980 , Vendredi, serie #12 the same as before with only black ink on plate, no roller used to cover the whole plate, so faint black on sntique white Arches paper. the series is simple - a burial in a firld, naked or almost naked men cardying the fallen figure to a grave dug in the field, this plate shows two men lifting the figure and placing him or her on their shoulders to carry to the grave site.