This body of work is a combination of exploration within classic methods of printmaking, as well as, a new advance in the technical application of building a resist in Intaglio printmaking. This thesis is a representation of diligent hours of exploration, creativity and research. The work spans multiple approaches within printmaking, and delves into a wide variety of marks, textures and media. The apex of the work embraces fully a newly discovered and researched method of creating a resist on a printing matrix. This new form of mark-making is catalyzed through a reaction between water and liquefied rosin upon a copper plate. The water and rosin repel and react with one another resulting in a uniquely constructed resist to be etched and printed. The methodology is best suited for the intended concept and scale. The conceptual aspects of the work encompass a variety of notions such as: finding the Self within abstraction, Heideggarian philosophical concepts, comparison between self-awareness and oblivion, and presence.