Collaged Etching by Wayne Bertola: "He Then Darted Back to Her and Kissed Her Cold Hands"

Moody engraving of a dark room, where a gaunt standing figure gazes over sleepers.

This collaged etching is by Wayne Bertola, and is ca. 1992. It is ink on paper. Collage adds pasted paper or printed fragments to an image, a method that artists have used since the early twentieth century to combine separate sources into one composition. Small black and white print on cream paper with crowded cross-hatching. A tall, thin figure stands at the center among dim shapes of furniture and people lying down. It is 4.5 inches wide and 7.25 high.

Spooky in the way only fine crosshatching can manage.