My Desk
By Ellen Pater. A stable surface, yet always changing. Configuring for different tasks. That is my desk. It is where I draw, where I read, where I write, listen to music and drink my coffee. It is where I prepare my prints, engrave copperplates with sharp burins on a sack of sand, or roughen their surface with a rocker to make a mezzotint, tools of a trade that are now accompanied by my grandfather’s old wetting stone to sharpen my burins before use. Other times there is a microscope, to study a…
