Etchings in series, suites and sets

 "Poems Betons"

 "Poems Betons" is a series of 5, multi- plate, black and white etchings.
The images are a portrait of life around my studio on St Lawrence , Montreal -The Main, ave du Parc, and Rachel.
Multiple images are printed together, shaped on the page like the words and phrases in  concrete poem.
This title is a play on words- a literal translation.
Paper is 11" x 15" on Arches in an edition of 30

"La Chute" (The waterfall) the little pegs image is are a reminder of St Laurent as part of the garment district.

"la Ville" (The City) views showing downtown light industry

"le Jardin" (The Garden) The underpass to La Cité Montréal

"le Chemin" (The Path) Ave du Parc at Duluth Montréal

"le Choix" (The Choice) the interior my studio across from the tombstone carver.

"Demarche"
suite of 3 etchings on "The Family program"
intaglio etchings with viscosity relief
image 11 x 9" on Rives BFK
edition of   

Demarche I The Family's Love & Hate Boundaries Iconographic Clues; barbed wire, the figure in the spotlight- cross between a bodybuilder/ Grünewald's Christ.

Demarche II The Family Dinner Conspiracies / Conspirators Iconographic Clues: masking tape, glasses and a lamp

Demarche III - Family Escapes - The Dustbin Of History or Timelessness. Iconographic Clues: photo of the Pacific Ocean, an arial view of a dumpster, a chessboard, a suitcase

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"Les Amants" -The Lovers 

Set of 2 etchings intaglio etching à la poupée & rainbow roll relief

"Les Amants - V-" the underpass at aves du Parc & Pins - sideways-

"Les Amants -H-" portrait & autoportrait

"La Vie Intérieur "- Verte  &  Rose

Set of 2 aquatint etchings with rainbow roller
on Rives BFK Image  5 x 7” Edition of 30 $225

Les Indices Iconographiques Le verte d’une mauvais cliché avec le pellicule Fuji. Vieux outils de cuisine, Fragments des posters de la chorégraphe Marie Chouinard et d’un album de "Animal Slaves" photo d'une journal de Johnny Lydon of The Sex Pistols.

Iconographic Clues "rose-coloured glasses", Vie en Rose-Piaf, door frame- ma cuisine datée des annees 1890's, hanging sculpture “Family Circle”, blue plastic palm tree, menorah, ebony sculpture, sombrero, teapot, and metal flowers.

"Local Habitation"
Suite of 3 chine collé aquatint & spit-bite etchings
20 x 26" on Rives BFK edition of 10, 2013

Local Habitation. ..Suite of 3 aquatint & spit-bite etchings 20 x 26" on Rives BFK edition 10

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local Habitation: The Flow

Local Habitation: The Wall

Local Habitation: The Flyer

  “And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, . . .
the poet’s pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.”

from A Midsummer's Night Dream
Shakespeare

Local Habitation is a suite of three etchings -reflections on creative manifestation.
The three pictures are drawn with aquatint in a photographic style.

• Of the the east side of Boulevard St Laurent, at Rachel in  Montreal. My studio's about half-way down the street.
• Of the Inside of my next studio, near St Joseph, the figure I call The flyer dangles in front of my shelves.
• Of the wall in that studio, drawings of two 3-d portraits, myself- the  flame-head clay figure-  images reflecting Grunewald, Blake, and the puppets of Rilke.

The plates are etched with nitric acid that works by dissolving unprotected plate into vapor.
For the clouds I used a rarely chosen opaque white ink coloured with the plate’s own oxide.
Spit bite is carried on water so I used that to carry the aquatint to etch the traffic flow and the cloud-like imagery.

The coalescing of water into cloud into shape,
meets the photograph
- a visual imprint of light.
Thus the images are created at the crossroads,
the X Y axis of two abstractions,
two airy nothings.

Demo: The printing of "Local Habitation"

"Labyrinth of a Memory"