Fall: Artist Eats Pho
- Date:
- 2011
- Medium:
- Intaglio, aquatint, drypoint, gouache monotype
- Dimensions:
- 179.1 × 133.4 cm
- Image courtesy of
- Cade Tompkins Projects
Part of a seasons-themed sequence in which Heyman turns the documentary attention he usually gives to interview subjects onto himself. Made in 2011, the print uses intaglio techniques — aquatint for tonal areas, drypoint for the velvety burr, etching for line — combined with gouache monotype, a hand-painted layer printed once from an unetched plate. This hybrid produces an image that is partly editioned and partly singular: every impression carries a unique painted register over a shared etched substrate. The subject is domestic and undramatic: the artist at a bowl of pho, an autumn meal. Where Heyman's testimony portraits depict survivors in formal seated poses, the seasons series reverses the gaze, placing the artist in the same posture — head bowed in concentration over an everyday act. The gouache adds painterly color over the etched line, contrasting controlled intaglio surface with looser brushwork. The work reflects a secondary strand in Heyman's practice in which printmaking is used for self-observation and journal-like record rather than political witness.
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Fall: Artist Eats Pho was created by Daniel Heyman in 2011.
Fall: Artist Eats Pho depicts autumn foliage.
Fall: Artist Eats Pho measures 179.1 × 133.4 cm.
