2006
drypoint
19.25 in. x 29 in.
Edition: 6
Couder: The etching entitled This is What You Do is one in a series dealing with concealment, disclosure, chaos, conflict, communication or the lack of it. Printed on zerkal 250 gr paper. Signed and numbered by the artist on the verso.
Patrick Couder (b. 1959) lives and works in Zaventem, Belgium. He is a criminologist and does studies in drawing and etching. I don’t want to linger on the question ‘what am I going to draw or to make?' I want to start immediately. That’s why I collect photographs from newspapers and magazines. I can then always take one of them, sit down and start to draw.