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Triple Copper Plate Etching “Deerslayer’s Dream” by Helen Hardin - 25922
Category: Paintings | Posted by | Tue, Dec 27th 2016, 4:50pm
Deerslayer's Dream is obviously a pleasant dream in which the hunter sees an almost unlimited number of deer. Helen provided a ceremonial connection between the deer hunter and the deer by putting a "heartline" on both, a symbol of life often seen on pottery imagery but never on human imagery.
Helen Hardin had only begun working with the etching process in 1980 and, by 1981, when she completed Deerslayer's Dream, she had most certainly mastered the technique. The is a multi-colored hand-printed etching executed on three copper plates-to achieve colors red, ochre, and brown.