35 industrial halftone plates, sourced from second-hand markets, arranged chronologically from left to right by date of acquisition. Dimensions variable.

This collection of printing plates was assembled by the artist and developed into the project the Archaeology of the Printed Image. In 1881 Frederic Ives patented the first commercially viable halftone process, breaking a photograph into a field of dots of varying density that could be printed alongside metal type; the method became standard for illustrated journals from the 1890s and remained in use until offset lithography matured in the 1960s. Acquired one at a time, the plates have been cleaned and printed again by hand; the prints are shown in the exhibition Palimpsests at Annex Gallery, which forms another part of this work.

2024-2026.