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Editorial of the first issue

This issue exists as a prototype, a "pilot object" or a proof print.

!TLAČ formulates the vectors around which ours and others' thinking about printmaking and its peripheries revolves.

The issue presents different possibilities of how and "from where" to relate to the medium and the notion of printmaking. The introductory essay, Two Concepts and Two More, by Polish professor Dorota F. Januszewska, in a way establishes the mood and the approximate direction in which the other contributions take place. Januszewska discusses the concept of the matrix and formulates in the essay a thesis on „printmaking way of thinking." The relationship to the matrix and printmaking way of thinking is further reflected in the notes of J. Štourač and in the contemplative prosaic text of V. Vavřena, about an everyday moment in the juxtaposition (register) of two house facades. The Act of Resistance: notes by A. Luňáková, situates printmaking among "small forms" in a discussion of Deleuze's book Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature. And together with a reprinted excerpt from The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque by G. Deleuze, they expand the imaginary "playground" within which the discussion and reflection on printmaking takes place. The poll represents a simple, lightweight and sincere interest in this medium. It serves us as a kind of "product testing" of the whole conversation and thinking about printmaking and gives us an insight into the "everyday" mindset of graphic artists* and their interest, in which any deeper reflection on the medium may not be central at all. In M. Vovsová's text, printmaking appears as a memory imprint and situational after image of the printmaking workshops at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Detailed notes on the layout, arrangement and equipment of the Stockholm workshops and their adjacent surroundings, transcribed from memory, were re-imprinted into the situation of the printmaking workshop of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Finally, the text Homeric Graphics K. Pivoňka revisits the Greek concept of grafó and presents its context.