Thanks Merg. I spent some time with him at the opening of "Megaliths" here at the NM Museum of Art decades ago it seems and a bit later on as he lived in SF at the time. His approach was different for every print, he used a few different developers mixed together in various proportions on a few different papers looking for that little something that said what he wanted it to. It was a very contemplative and purposeful and slow process and I can't say I always saw the differences or agreed with his treatment every time. But saying a print isn't the way I would do it or how one of the be-knighted "masters" would do it or that it doesn't measure up to what god would do is meaningless and egocentric. All you can honestly say is whether it works for me as a whole or it doesn't and for me with PC the yes's far exceed the no's. Many of my favorite printers don't print like the "masters" and are more interesting IMO as a result. Ray K. Metzger comes to mind.
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