This is a drawing of Orlovsky Lighthouse, made with carbon paper for an Instagram marathon of Prostaya Shkola, implying making images after the artist's travel photographs.

Carbon paper is mostly considered as a technical instrument, rather than an independent drawing technique because of its initial function. How do different artists work with carbon paper (Nick Mauss, Matthew Monahan)? Why is it rarely presented in art? What are difficulties in working with carbon paper? How does it differ from the drawing on paper directly? Which conceptual ideas this medium can transfer?

There is a question of "suitable" and "approved" materials/techniques artists are supposed to work with, which refers to the general dichotomy of "high" and "low" art (or materials in this case). Carbon paper is rarely considered the "high" one (as well as stamp pads, with which Masha Titova also works); working with carbon paper is not taught in art schools/colleges (or rarely and accidentally taught, but not as a part of the program); it can be found mostly in office supplies shops or big art supplies supermarkets, and not in the same amount and diversity as markers, brushes, paper or paints.

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