The work was created with an etching technique which - applied by HJ Schlieker - typically begins with a bold, direct intervention on the printing plate surface, employing an array of unconventional tools—metal brushes, drills, scrapers, screws, nails, chisels, and even pastry wheels. The fine grooves collect the ink, which is later transferred on paper. What follows is the technique which gives this class of works its name – etching – to accentuate the image with big, counterpointed tonal areas. After, the plate is placed on the bed of a rolling printing press, the different colors - in this case black, blue and ocher - are layered on top of one another in several printing rounds. Only a limited number of prints are created from one plate before the plate gets destroyed - ultimately turning the artwork into a limited "non-fungible" asset. As a result of the printing and coloring method, no print looks exactly like another. Each print is therefore unique; each is an original.

catalogue number: R122/97
title: "Sylt", BL.5
year: 1997
dimension, metal plate: 100cm X 70cm
dimension, work: 120cm X 86cm
technique: drypoint combined with aquatint
coloring: black, blue, ocher
physical edition: 3/5