"A Dream of Time" commissioned by Victoria Print Society, Relief print battleship Lino 12 x 19"
"From the bubble of covid, and noticing how one thing leads to another, I thought it was time to get my ducks in a row.
For me, the printmaking process acts as a metaphorical path for figuring things out.
I drew and carved "A Dream of Ducks" and began to see more clearly the imperative to re-balance the culture/nature relationship of this world that feeds our bodies and our minds, at this crossroad of climate change."
For me, the printmaking process acts as a metaphorical path for figuring things out.
I drew and carved "A Dream of Ducks" and began to see more clearly the imperative to re-balance the culture/nature relationship of this world that feeds our bodies and our minds, at this crossroad of climate change."
Because PRINTgallery was conceived within the context of The Pandemic I used the occasion to generate a picture of these extraordinary times. The challenge and the struggle of using Lino for such a complex image seemed quite appropriate in these circumstances. I 'bookended' this image in the publication with "Hero's Threshold" the etching I made for The Millennium. 20 years ago with the hopes and fears of different times. "Hero's Threshold" focused on technologies of communication, "A dream of time/Ducks in a Row" 2020 on people and nature.
PRINTgallery No.6
I began the project taking my cue from the place where my image was going to live, the PRINTgallery publication.
The hand-held book-like format invites a close read.
I could make a dense, layered image, one you could really sit with.
I could take my time to consider the design, the image sources, the drawings.
I could go at it slowly, face by face, group by group, scene by scene, as you would with a movie, and trust it to be as fresh and immediate as a heavily layered and edited film can be.
The physical paper publication as a virtual gallery is like the printmaking process, it holds plenty of metaphorical potential.
From a flat closed surface, it unfolds in a sequence of actions leading to the grand "reveal" at the core of the experience.
Held close up it floods one's field of vision at arms length, allows another reading, the depth and scale of meaning rests in the hands of the viewer.
I began the project taking my cue from the place where my image was going to live, the PRINTgallery publication.
The hand-held book-like format invites a close read.
I could make a dense, layered image, one you could really sit with.
I could take my time to consider the design, the image sources, the drawings.
I could go at it slowly, face by face, group by group, scene by scene, as you would with a movie, and trust it to be as fresh and immediate as a heavily layered and edited film can be.
The physical paper publication as a virtual gallery is like the printmaking process, it holds plenty of metaphorical potential.
From a flat closed surface, it unfolds in a sequence of actions leading to the grand "reveal" at the core of the experience.
Held close up it floods one's field of vision at arms length, allows another reading, the depth and scale of meaning rests in the hands of the viewer.
Using graphite paper makes a stable transfer of lines even when the block is washed after proofing. and they can be erased with white eraser
Source Material:
Goya's faces from the Prado Museum -I saw them in 2017
"Goya En Burdeos" by Carlos Saura 1999.This fantastic film has Goya painting on the wall "Pilgrimage to San Isidro, La romería de San Isidro" 1819-23
Goya's faces from the Prado Museum -I saw them in 2017
Source Material: images from YouTube - hands and phones Political Rally 2020
The image of the medical mask places "Ducks" into 2020
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Source Material: "The Garden of Earthly Delight" Hieronymus Bosch, Museo del Prado Madrid
image of a grouping of men in suits 2020
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A crowd, a throng, a mass movement
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