These psychedelic marbled works on paper make still more explicit the idea of self-generating painting: The technically complex marbling technique--devised by another collaborator, "master
marbler" Dirk Lange--creates patterns, washes, and concentric swirls of color, which are also linked to the formal characteristics of the slices of agate embedded in some of the stained-glass works Bratsch created with the glass painter Urs Rickenbach.
Another addition to the Oak Knoll Press list of publications about the crafts attendant to book production, this is a lovely package of information about a once-popular paper
marbler who fell into obscurity when his company went out of business in 1971.