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About this work

You see a white sheet of paper with deep, wavy lines pressed into it—no ink, just the marks left by pressing hard. Gribaudo skipped ink entirely. He used a printing technique called intaglio, but instead of filling the grooves with color, he let the paper’s own texture show. The lines look like they were carved by hand, not printed. To see more works that play with empty space and pressure, look up cross-hatching.