'alalimón' 2007 Etching and inkjet on paper by Humberto Baca and Plinio Avila. 80x80cm.

   -That, exactly what you are about to do: adding salt to your food… you don’t know what you’re doing to yourself.- Humberto said energetically.
   Just a half hour before we both finished teaching a printmaking workshop where we talked about the potential hazard art materials are for artists’ health. And the truth is that I do not know the hazard salt is for myself, so I decided, with the help of everyone’s eyes in the restaurant to put the saltshaker on the table. But since my tacos could not stay like that, I poured loads of lemon and all the different salsas I found. A glass of milk would balance my stomach’s pH.
   I was particularly surprised of how good my tacos came up because I never actually liked lemon. I never put lemon on my food, even tequila goes lemonless for me. I also have to confess that, as an artist, I am not very keen about making prints either. I never had a strong and coherent reason. It could be said that in the kitchen of printmaking, I am a vegetarian taco chef.
   So when Humberto asked me to make this etching ‘al alimón’, I decided not to make a print, but only to add lemon to it.
   It is conceptually healthier.

'al alimón´in spanish means to make something together.

'grabado al alimón' is when two artists work on the same plate negociating images, style and composition.