Printing The Shelter

The block was printed by hand, using a glass jar.

At this scale, working without a press changes everything. The process becomes slower, more direct, and entirely dependent on the body.

After inking the surface, the paper is placed on top and the pressure begins - built gradually, through repeated movement. The jar is used to transfer the image by hand, moving across the surface section by section. There is no single, even pressure. It has to be found.

Each area requires a different approach. Some parts need more force, others less. The hand adjusts constantly, responding to what can be felt through the paper. It is a process of listening as much as applying pressure.

The base of the jar is not perfectly smooth. It leaves subtle variations on the surface - a slight emboss, a shift in texture. These are not controlled in a precise way. They emerge through the act itself.

Printing takes time. The image does not appear all at once. It builds gradually, as the pressure moves across the sheet.

That moment - when the sheet is peeled back from the block - is the first time the full image is seen as a whole.

Until then, it exists only in fragments.

The final print carries the record of that process - pressure, movement, variation - not as imperfections, but as part of its structure.