Alicia McCarthy translated into print her complex painting process, in which she seems to weave color through intricately intersecting lines. The artist worked with printers at Berkeley’s Paulson Fontaine Press to produce this eighty-four-color aquatint prepared à la poupée, a process in which multiple colors are applied separately onto a single plate that is pulled through the press. Aware of the tremendous skill and labor involved in printing this aquatint on two pieces of paper, which were later joined together, McCarthy titled the artwork ZAPCRLM: the initials of every person who collaborated on the project.