Alexander Massouras
There, I unravelled a gilded rope ladder (Mine 11), 2021-2016
Series: Etchings
Etching with Gold Leaf
19 x 27.5 cm
Edition of 60
“Mine is a series of twelve figurative etchings that draw on the symbolic potential of gold and mining. The series concerns the discovery of gold where it has clearly been...
“Mine is a series of twelve figurative etchings that draw on the symbolic potential of gold and mining. The series concerns the discovery of gold where it has clearly been discovered before. That a fresh discovery is facilitated through a golden ladder complicates the series with suggestions that the value being mined isn't wholly external.”