Passersby 2

A monotype is a one-of-a-kind print: pigment is painted or rolled onto a smooth plate and transferred once to paper, after which the matrix carries no reusable image. Lee's substitution of coffee for ink gives the suite a warm sepia register and a slightly granular deposit, since coffee solids settle differently from a milled printing ink. Across one hundred sheets the small variations between pulls — pressure, dilution, evaporation — accumulate into the flicker that drives the stop-motion animation she assembles from the suite. The Passersby 2 frames extend the street-observation subject of Passersby 1 (drypoint, same year) into a medium where every frame is technically unrepeatable, mirroring the non-repeatability of any single moment of street traffic. The pairing of the two suites is itself part of her argument about print: that even within an idiom built on multiplicity, the moving printed image accumulates from one-time events.