URBAN HATCH // WORKING PROOFS

Working Proofs · 2026 · Original Relief Prints PULLED FROM ERIE. PUT BACK TO WORK. Erie is full of things people walk over without giving them a second thought. Utility covers. Cast iron. Old lettering. Industrial patterns worn down by decades of weather, traffic, and people going about their business. We thought some of those surfaces deserved a closer look. URBAN HATCH began with a simple idea: take an impression from the working surface of the city and put it on paper. These are the first working proofs.

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Pulled by hand by Erie artist and printmaker Edward Patrick Kranz (Ezju), the prints capture fragments of the city's utility-cover designs using black and crimson relief-printing ink on Flurry Cotton paper.

Some carry only the original street impression. Others include an early, experimental printing of the Erie Labor Temple mark and its tagline, ART WORKS HERE.

There are broken lines, uneven transfers, unexpected textures, and places where the ink simply didn't take. That's part of the work. These are prints made while figuring out what the process can do, not reproductions made to look distressed.

Each available sheet is an individual original working proof from the development of the Urban Hatch project. These pieces sit outside the planned 100-print variable edition.

The project will continue. The printing blocks will improve. The technique will change.

These first marks won't be made again in quite the same way.

Original work. Made in Erie. Sold in support of the place where more work gets made.