Cenotaph Gate Primus

Cenotaph Gate Primus : Series : History Hates Lovers

18x24 Lithograph, Photolithograph, ProntoPlate Lithograph on Sekishu paper - Printed Both Sides

 Cenotaph Gate Primus - Series: History Hates Lovers

18x24 Lithograph, Photolithograph, ProntoPlate Lithograph on Sekishu paper - Printed Both Sides

Gate Primus is a lithograph that establishes a material and conceptual dialogue between a novel printmaking methodology and an unbuilt architectural icon. The work directly references Étienne-Louis Boullée's late 18th-century design for the Cenotaph for Newton, a visionary project that, due to its scale and technical ambition, remained in the realm of theoretical architecture. The print re-contextualizes this monument, which was intended to honor the Enlightenment's apotheosis of science, and translates its sublime, spherical form into a tangible object through a contemporary and novel process. Utalizing a pen and plotter the ink is applied to pronto plates and affixed thereby allowing gradation and hatching that generally were once the realm of hand work, and half tone screens. This method allows for precise repetition and endless variations.