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While making my 5 rubbings, I experienced a lot of trial and error. I liked the idea of making Max Ernst’s technique of frottage my own, especially converging patterns of many rubbings together to produce images that are unrelated to the initial source. I feel like the essay liberated me to create things that would generate unexpected results as well as reminded me of what is possible. I do agree that some rubbings have a quality of impermanence and spontaneous rendering that is similar to a dream; I even feel like some of my rubbings have that same transitory nature. Most of all I learned to welcome the accidental quality that rubbing has and treat these first five as investigations toward something larger, which was really inspiring! I believe that prints do require a matrix. After all, it is what is holding the information that is waiting to be transferred. However, I feel like we should expand what a matrix can be and what it looks like. I believe anything that hold information has the capacity to be printed from. I think in order for something to be a print it has to have the capacity to be printed multiple times. A print is the transferring of information, and is usually a copy of something. I understand not every print is the same, but even the idea in essence can still be printed multiple times even if they are not identical. A print can be of a physical object or on a physical object. A print does not have to be flat. I think prints are versatile. If someone can find an innovative way to transfer information onto physical objects, then it is a print. I think being close minded with art is the last thing that should happen. There are so many possibilities. I think that in their own way, rubbings are prints. They transfer a message successfully, they have the capacity to be repeated and to me that’s all a print really needs.
