DAILY PIC: This is a detail from “Caesura” by Emily Henretta, on view now at Room East in New York. The piece is a woodcut printed on copper-green rice paper, and what I especially like about it is the way Henretta uses the crudest, most primitive printmaking technique to render a circuit board, that symbol of technological sophistication. What with Henretta’s rips and the glitches in her printing, something seems wrong in our brave new world.
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