Flora McLachlan
In etching, the copper plate enters the mordant as into a witch’s cauldron; working like this, you are drawing incantations and casting spells. I enjoy using impermanent and chaotic etching grounds to let chance into my work, which I then scry into with scraper and additional etching to reach the image and evoke my shadowy, dreamlike stories. I also use simple ritual and divination to provoke unexpected connections. Images from my everyday life and my memory are thus gathered and bound into a tentative and poetic personal mythology that weaves me to the world and to other people.