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Dust and Scratches

In these etchings, I worked with line as structure — repeated and accumulated until the marks resolve into form. The sources are embedded in the surface: natural systems, rhythms, and the residue of time.

Before You Settle Down by Shannon Milar — Dust and Scratches series. Drypoint with monotype. Close diagonal planes of fractured rock rendered in deep brown and grey, the surface built from fine drypoint line and tonal wash.

Before You Settle Down

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Dune Scape by Shannon Milar — Dust and Scratches series. Etching. Horizontal bands of angular, interlocking forms in black and cream suggest eroded dune layers seen in cross-section.

Dune Scape

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Folded Hand by Shannon Milar — Dust and Scratches series. Etching. Dense dark crosshatching surrounds irregular white geometric planes that shift and overlap like cracked or lifted surfaces.

Folded Hand

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Montreux (orange) by Shannon Milar — Dust and Scratches series. Aquatint. Layered horizontal wave forms in deep orange and burnt sienna build a landscape of compressed strata and heat.

Montreux (orange)

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There Are Levels to This by Shannon Milar — Dust and Scratches series. Etching. Vertical composition of layered geological forms in warm brown ink, accumulated line building terrain from the ground up.

There Are Levels to This

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counting the sets by Shannon Milar — Dust and Scratches series. Line etching with chine collé. Dense accumulated horizontal marks resolve into a wave-like surface.

counting the sets

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I.D. by Shannon Milar — Dust and Scratches series. Etching. Warm brown curved forms built from accumulated line emerge from a white ground.

I.D.

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re-drift by Shannon Milar — Dust and Scratches series. Color line etching and aquatint. A deep red form and gold aquatint ground meet dark etched geological structure.

re-drift

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the view from where i stand by Shannon Milar — Dust and Scratches series. Aquatint etching. Diptych of layered horizontal marks in grey and olive, recording surface and duration.

the view from where i stand

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glacier by Shannon Milar — Dust and Scratches series. Line etching and open bite. Dense accumulated crosshatching renders the mass and texture of a glacier face.

glacier

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