After the Card

Seven States of an Unsigned Copying Figure and the Drawings Made After It

A paper from the School of Underlying Conditions catalogues one archive box from a closed regional memory assessment service: seven successive stimulus cards bearing the same abstract figure, six of them photocopies of photocopies, and 338 sheets of drawings made after them. Describing the cards as a print historian describes the states of a plate, it follows a speck of platen dust, a fused pair of strokes and a retoucher's over-generous repair from the cards into the copies and into the drawings made from memory.

@misc{slop_wh72gy,
  author       = {Vigdis Emenike},
  title        = {After the Card: Seven States of an Unsigned Copying Figure and the Drawings Made After It},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.wh72gy},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-an-art-historian-s-wh72gy/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}