By: Rosalyn Richards

Medium: Etching and aquatint
Image : 11.88 x 9.88 inches
Edition: 15
Year: 2011

In Descent, Rosalyn Richards explores gravity, structure, and dissolution through a spare yet complex abstract composition. Layered etching and aquatint form a suspended, funnel-like geometry that appears to pull the surrounding marks inward, suggesting both physical descent and conceptual inquiry. Fine linear scaffolding intersects with atmospheric tonal fields, creating a tension between precision and entropy.

Executed in 2011 in a small edition of 11, this print reflects Richards’s interest in systems, mapping, and the visual language of measurement, while allowing chance textures and tonal drift to disrupt strict order. The result is a work that feels simultaneously analytical and poetic—an image of movement slowed, examined, and quietly unsettled.