Double exposure

Photography is not the real; it is only a certain representation of reality. The photographic image is first, technically, a negative, which becomes a positive through the developing process. The same goes for linocut: a negative is carved into a linoleum matrix, inked, printed, and it becomes a positive.

Carving is also the physical intervention, visible and imperfect, of the human hand. Of a will to leave a trace.

These two ways of making an image, optical and mechanical or manual and physical, say the same thing: an image is a construction, never the real itself.

Engraving makes this plain; photography less so, passing for an objective capture and hiding how it was made.