02 — Practice

Most printmaking teaching answers the wrong question. It tells you how to hold the gouge, how much ink to roll, how to manage pressure and registration. What it doesn’t tell you is why your work still doesn’t feel fully like yours after years of learning those things.

That gap isn’t a technique problem. It’s a thinking problem.

The exercises here are built around a single conviction: that the distance between technically competent work and work that genuinely belongs to you is closed by learning to think about your practice — what it’s asking, what it’s avoiding, what it would have to change to be more honest.

Not faster hands. A clearer eye.