“Etching” a Criminal Offense?
Apparently the media is up to its old tricks again… smearing printmaking’s good name through confusing misuse of print terminology. The city of Christchurch in New Zealand is suffering from a spate of vandalism that is being referred to as an “etching epidemic.” This is an outrage. Every Beginning Intaglio student knows that etching requires acid… more accurately this is a “drypoint epidemic,” or perhaps even an “engraving epidemic” assuming these young hoods are skilled with a buren. But an “etching epidemic”?! Come on, media, do your homework!
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Sad. The liberal New Zealand MSM is at it again!
sadly, in Pittsburgh vandals really do use acids in little sponge-stopped bottles to etch windows and tarnish printmakers’ good names/specialized vocabulary. The “frosted” etched graffiti they create is, like a flatbitten aquatint, permanent.
I guess the news decided this sounded better than a “scratching epidemic.”