SANDRINE GUÉRIN By Faye Hirsch folio I (2002), a suite of four soft-ground etchings in an edition of twenty-seven plus five artist’s proofs and three printer’s proofs. Each measures 15 x 18 in. (paper) and 3 x 4 in., 8x10 in., or 11 x 14 in. (plate) and was printed on Hahnemühle Bright White Copperplate paper by Felix Harlan and Carol Weaver at Harlan & Weaver, Inc., New York. Published by Baron/Boisanté Editions, New York. In the print project she published nearly a year ago with Baron/Boisanté (AoP VI/4, p. 74), Sandrine Guérin, who has a penchant for the simplest available means to gain an image, used pieces of broken Styrofoam pressed into plates prepared in soft-ground to create a multi-paneled landscape. A similarly light and even more playful touch characterizes this suite of four prints, in which the artist has pressed jigsaw puzzle pieces in various configurations into the soft-ground. Pressure is unevenly applied; in some places it is just the edges of the puzzle-pieces that appear, so they seem to materialize and dematerialize like a mist in a harbor. In only one print do the pieces fit together; elsewhere they have been laid down side-by-side with no effort at joining them. The effect is to distance the image from what it represents, as well as to pay heed to the arbitrary quality of an art practice that will not bend to the rules.