First time printing several frames of a 35mm film in the darkroom onto one sheet of paper. The process was quite meditative in its mathematic. The whole day was just a line.

To make the print I first needed to make a grid, to know how to frame everything in the dark. On the easel I needed to hide all but one window of those 7 squares. That would be my first image. I made exposure readings for this little image and one tiny test print. After that I had to expose the 11x14 sheet with the chosen exposure time and then place it safely back into the box, so as to protect it from light during the continuation of this process. Now I repeated this 7 times. And when the final image was exposed onto the large sheet, I could develop it.

To see it appear after having taking it in and out of the box and not knowing if I truly paid enough attention to: the placing of the sheet and the exposure times, the right framing and rotation of the paper etc. - was really a moment of holding your breath. I think this felt more special than just printing one image on one paper.

And the result is covered with my finger prints. I guess some of the chemicals throughout the process got stuck on my sweaty, excited hands and from touching it over and over, there is a trace now. And I am quite happy about this trace. There is a piece of me on the paper. A mark.