Ayesha Ramachandran
Ayesha Ramachandran is a literary critic and cultural historian of the early modern world. She is the author of The Worldmakers (2015) and is Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University. She is currently working on a book entitled, Lyric Thinking: Towards a Global Poetics. She is also a printmaker fascinated with recreating early modern techniques.
I stand taut by the acid bath, lifting the plate out of the darkness. In a moment, I will look through the jeweler’s loupe at the glint of the copper, seeing how deeply the lines have been etched, imagining wiping the viscous ink into the jagged crevasses.
