Monotype

Monotype is a printing technique in which an image is applied directly onto a smooth surface and then transferred onto paper in a single impression.

Because most of the ink is transferred during the printing process, only one unique print is created. Within this process, traces of movement remain visible — smudges, pressure marks, and distortions that fragment and soften the image.

Within this experiment, I explore how the image transforms at the moment of transfer. Forms are not fixed, but shift, blur, or partially dissolve into the material. The result exists between control and chance, where the image only fully emerges through the act of printing.