Karen Baden Thapa

Fine Art Printmaking & Collage

Solar Plate Etching

Karen Baden Thapa

Last summer, I took a workshop at the Blue Mouse Studio in Aptos. I learned more about solar plate etching and started a series of prints based on an image of Machu Pichu that I took in 1986. I woke up early the morning after my arrival and spend several hours almost alone in the ruins before the first tourist train arrived. These images are based on one photograph that I transferred to a solar plate. I made an intaglio plate and a relief plate of the same image. These three prints and the result of my printing the two solar plates in different combinations of color and composition.