exisccatae

m benjamin herndon found through HONY

The Charta exisccatae pieces remind me

of the ghost print that’s left after the first lifting of paint.

Also of the rock prints installed in McCabe Library at Swarthmore in the 1970’s when I was there.

I lacked the consciousness to make note of the artist’s name.

Ideas…

On a related note, you can get a free ebook Fuci, Sive, Plantarum Fucorum Generi a Botanicis Ascriptarum …, Volume 3 containing sets of words like this:

COLOR aqosè ruber, fusco tinctus, sub-diaphanus, exsiccatæ et rursus madefactæ magis fuscescit

COLOR, pale red, wth a slight brownish tinge, semitransparent, becoming more brown from being wetted and again dried

I think it is describing a fungus or alga.

The text leads me to believe Chartae exsiccata means drying or dried paper. Not sure what charta exisccatae means.