Limited edition prints; works on paper escapades

7project

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The Wind Up Bird ;Haruki Murakami
"Once again i am myself inside my own body"





A lifetime ago, i found time to read novels, long National Geographic articles about exotic & interesting places & people;anything really. It was never distracting from the everyday existence rather it enhanced it completely. I really love this falling into characters & spaces so it seems strange to not do it so easily now. For instance i have had "The Life & Opinions of Maf the Dog & of his Friend Marilyn Monroe" by Andrew OHagan (The paris Review-on-maf-the-dog ) by my bed for over 2 months& i know its a great book too.

As you can see i find it frustrating... and recently whilst looking through some journals i had noted various lines(beautiful sentences) that reasonated with me from all the novels that id read & thought as ideas for prints....As part of the process im making them into a 7 Day drawing project that may one day appear as prints. One day!
These are the first set of ink drawings on cotton paper



Making Books

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It feels as though it has been a long & short week ..Easter celebrations & a lot of real home time which as it turns out was very relaxing. Moving on to ANZAC day http://www.awm.gov.au/commemoration/anzac/anzac-tradition/#dawn  & something i observe within a distance & some puzzlement.  I attempted to make books, did several drawings & actually threw out a few old print mishaps that i was keeping to do something with. That made me a bit uneasy; i just don't like to waste the paper. I let it go only because i seem to have accumulated more than i need. I did find a few remnants that could be saved & turned into books so we shall see the results soon i hope.
I also received the catalogues from Hong Kong containing the biggest catalogues I've seen this year. This was an exhibition in which i collected all the Impress Printmakers Studio prints included in the Graphic Arts Festival Convergence/Divergence.The open-printshop has details in their newsletter

Portraits with bird of paradise

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Am collecting bird of paradise images to incorporate with New Guinea portraits...I dont know if there is a more astonishing bird species than the BOP (Family Paradisaeidae)
Read more at National Geo site


Screenprint

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A few possibilities; i am thinking about screenprinting the text (regarding memory) onto the etchings & have been arranging a few things in photoshop. Lately i have been looking at type & text a lot more closely,enjoying the visual qualities i guess...talking about artists using tpe... Art21 has a guest blogger writing about  Glenn Ligon & his text based works which i found today as i looked at art21 for class ideas...i wish i had more time to read..

Etching Proof on White

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...another etching from doublings series at the first stage... i think i prefer the stark white which i rarely use however there are usually a few changes until the final state...Now to keep it simple.

Gallery of proofs

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Etching on zinc

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Another etching in progress.. Much of my time  looking at some interesting books to cut up which has been consuming. I am really excited about the latest sets of etchings so ill post results soon