None of my printing work is ever regarded as being 'finished'. This is but the beginning of my second term of one day per week for 10 weeks - so I am barely at the start with the practice. Everything is of interest, and in many ways that is the main joy.I was born on a Thursday: 'far to go', and it really has turned out that way. It is not that I have reached a specific distant point, but that it is such a fascinating journey. There has been - still is - a great deal which I do not enjoy about it; but that is far outweighed by the rest of the experience.
The above image shows my initial rubbings off of the ink from the collagraph plate shown in the last post. I scanned it through the other side of the tissue paper because the ink is still wet. I have no idea if I shall go on to do something with this, but nonetheless it excites me. And I get so excited that I have at my fingertips the technology to go on to make something more from this happy accident should a possibility leap into my mind.
2 comments:
It's definitely exciting. I read and looked at this yesterday and it stuck with me through the night. You are onto something here, and paired with your other graphic patterned figures, it's coming into something totally else.
That isn't very rational sounding, but just to say -- your later post combined with this post seem like you are pushing through some veil.
June - I certainly feel that the printmaking is providing more than the sum of its parts, so to speak. It was to help me get out of the house regularly, and to distract my mind. It has definitely done those, has given me a whole new area to research (and how I love to research), and has indeed contributed to my design thinking.
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