I moved on to another element that has characterized my working life these last 20 years; ink. C mentioned colour and printing the other day and I realized the CMYK  (cyan, magenta, yellow & black) standard was a recognizable and suggestive element I could use. For those of you not in-the-know, mixing cyan, magenta and yellow gives you a muddy black, so printers add the 4th ink to sharpen up the blacks. These 4 inks are what all traditional colour printing uses. The black in the stacked bk rope is actually CMY…

 

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