The act of marking out a photographic image on a zinc place with acetone alters its primordial referent. The process is primitive and therefore the resulting image is a mere phantom fragment.

In a second instance of printing the plate is taken to its extreme through the repetition of the printing of the plate. The image becomes entirely abstract often losing any similarity with the original photograph. The image is thus erased by the repetition of engraving.

Thus, the attempt to reproduce (or in a sybolic way to remeber it by its repetition) the image in this case, results in the opposite effect by gradually becoming more abstract.