#softcut

I love the contrast of the ink on the engraved design and the background marked by the cuts made by the gouges.

Ah, the art of making engravings.

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Adoro o contraste da tinta sobre o desenho gravado e o fundo marcado com os cortes feitos pelas goivas.

Ah, a arte de fazer gravura.

girl with the most cake. 2021

SNAKE DOCTOR

2018 Softcut print 12 x 17,5 cm

by Núria Romeu Caudet

In the Southern United States, dragonflies are often called snake doctors or snake’s servants due to the folk belief that they follow snakes around and stitch up their wounds if they’re injured.

TOLD YOU I CAN DO IT!

thomas. 2021

WOMANHOOD

2018 Softcut print 10 x 15 cm

by Núria Romeu Caudet

"We should now proceed to the generative Parts of Women, that is, to the Description of those Parts, that involve Women in a thousand Miseries, enervate Men a thousand manners of ways, by means of which weak and feeble Women triumph over the strongest of Men. Parts which have ruined many the most potent Kings, destroyed Emperors, made wise Men Fools, deceived the Learned, seduced the Prudent, thrown the Sound into most shameful Distempers, impoverished the Rich, and vanquished the stoutest Hero’s: That hurried holy David into Sin, led away Salomon to Idolatry, prostrated the Strength of Sampson, and compelled the stoutest Hercules to the Distaff; I say to the Description of those Parts, which alone by some peculiar sorts of Enchantments are able to drive the Minds of most Men, and those the most Prudent, to Distraction, while they think these to be the sweetest and the fairest Parts in Women, which are the most foul and nasty in her whole Body, sordid and diseased Parts; besmeared with ugly Blood and Matter, defied with hourly Piss: Smelling of Sulphur and Puddle-Water, and as if unworthy to be seen placed by Nature in the most remote and secret Part of the whole Body, next to the Anus and its Dung; being the Sink of all the Nastiness and Uncleanness of her Body."

TOAD BONE

2018 Softcut print 15,5 x 19,5 cm

by Núria Romeu Caudet

“We get these toads alive and bring them home. They have a ring round their neck and are what they call walking toads. We bring them home, kill them, and put them on a whitethorn bush. They are there for twenty four hours till they dry. Then we bury the toad in an ant-hill; and it’s there for a full month, till the moon is at the full. Then you get it out; and it’s only a skeleton. You take it down to a running stream when the moon is at the full. You watch it carefully, particular not to take your eyes off it. There’s a certain bone, a little crotch-bone it is, it leaves the rest of the skeleton and floats uphill against the stream. Well, you take that out of the stream, take it home, bake it, powder it and put it in a box; and you use oils with it the same as you do for the milch. While you are watching these bones in the water, you must on no consideration take your eyes off it. Do (if you do) you will lose all power. That’s where you get your power from for messing about with horses, just keeping your eyes on that particular bone. But when you are watching it and these bones are parting, you’ll hear all the trees and all the noises that you can imagine, even as if buildings were falling down or a traction engine is running over you. But you still mustn’t take your eyes off, because that’s where you lose your power. Of course, the noises must be something to do with the Devil’s work in the middle of the night...”