Lithograph from stone with chine colle additions. The print is one of a series of around eight prints called Klecksographie, which is the art of making images from ink blots, as used in Rorscach tests. The shape in this image could be interpreted as a butterfly, or a pelvis, or also as containing the shapes of embryos. The two lines of text read 'ceci n'est pas un papillon' and 'ceci n'est pas un bassin' [' this is not a butterfly/pelvis'] and refer to the Rene Magritte work with text reading 'ceci n'est pas un pipe'. The text has been dusted with pwder pigment when partially dry, to give the gold colour.
The overlaid images are made using gampi silk tissue, a delicate Japanese paper, and the chine colle technique. The images are illustrations from children's books taken from litho stones dating to the 1930s which came from the publishers Blackie. A large number of stones from Blackie were given to the Glasgow School of Art and subsequently distributed to other organisations and individuals, including Elspeth and Glasgow Print Studio, she believes. Lamb found that the images were still viable to print.
The print was made at the Rutgers Centre for Innovative Print and Paper (RCIPP) at Rutgers University, New Jersey by Master Printer Eileen Foti. It was printed from aluminium photo plate litho using toner tusche - a method of drawing using photocopier toner powder to create the wash-like effects in blue.
