In the artist’s description, Fleurs Studio’s Terrain Study II moves from a range of hills to a single peak surrounded by clouds and fog. The artist describes constructing the image from small points, using changes in tone and dithering to create the impression of light and rock. The work was made for a different printmaking process than a pen plotter, but its treatment of atmosphere and terrain opens up questions worth carrying into plotted drawing.
What happens if long lines, rather than hundreds of thousands of individual points, describe the same shift between rock, mist and sky? It is an appealing direction for CDW’s future sky and cloud experiments, without trying to reproduce the original work.
