URBAN HATCH // WORKING PROOF 02
$55.00
02 // ERIE DESIGN — FIRST IMPRESSION
Someone designed this. Someone made the pattern. Someone cast it in metal, and someone put it to work beneath the feet of a city.
Most of us have never stopped to look at it.
This early Urban Hatch proof captures part of an Erie-designed utility cover, allowing the original cast geometry and accumulated surface wear to speak for themselves.
There is no secondary ELT logo or tagline impression. The incomplete transfer, interruptions, and changing ink density belong to the original printing experiment.
What was once a functional object in the street becomes a study in design, wear, and the labor behind ordinary things.
Original relief print · 12 × 18 in. · 2026 · Unframed
Individual working proof by Edward Patrick Kranz (Ezju).
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Relief Print Info
Artist
Edward Patrick Kranz (Ezju)
Project
ELT Urban Hatch
Year
2026
Medium
Original hand-pulled relief print
Printing surfaces
Erie utility covers; experimental ELT block where applicable
Paper
Flurry Cotton, Soft White, 80 lb text, 118 gsm
Sheet size
12 × 18 inches
Ink
Supergraphic Black and/or Crimson Red, as applicable
Classification
Trial / Working Proof
Edition
Outside the V.E. 001–100 edition
Framing
Unframed
Availability
One individual proof per listing