For our new edition with San Francisco-based artist, Henna Vainio we began by working from photographic reproductions of her large-scale sculptures. Our previous Studio Visit post from Henna’s studio really shares a sense of her process which often involves pigmented plaster, from which she builds freestanding statues cast from moulds of corrugated cardboard sheeting. Our prints combined open printed flats with selective areas of fine halftone to mimic the shadows and highlights of her forms. The repetition of the cardboard corrugation creates a strong, graphic element across each print but it is the areas where the halftone mimics the curls and curves of her sculptural forms that prove the most compelling.
