Lithographic bag, 2025

By Samuli Makkonen ^{Emerging artist}

35 x 19.5 cm

print on japanese paper folded to a bag, filled with graining sand, gum arabic

I printed lithography on japanese paper that i then folded to a bag and made a wash to it with liquid gum arabic to make it look more like a brown paper bag that contains carborundum sand, used in the process of graining the lithostones. I wanted to make some material studying with this piece related to printmaking process and its mediums. Also i had curiosity, that how much weight this kind of paper can hold as a paper bag, in the end the bag started leaking and the sand made these kind of dunes on the lithostone installation in the NYTT-2025 exhibition.

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