Green Rounds, ink on Sansui SH8 paper; image size 10 x 10 in, paper size 18 x 18 in.
After making a number of prints with regular forms, I thought I'd work with some squishy shapes. I pulled this print at the end of September, during the same session in which I made these potato prints. Working from a gouache study of overlapping circles, I decided to make the circles irregular, slightly flattened, with their edges having varying widths. Usually when I work with circles I rummage in my kitchen for the sizes I need; the rims of bowls and pots, glasses and mugs, cookie cutters and other odds and ends become my templates. For this print I drew the circles freehand. Is that too much imperfection, of medium and of design? I hope not.
Too much imperfection? I am reminded of Mercedes Matter telling her students at the NYSS of Mondrian's experimentation with masking tape for his later paintings. It didn't work for him, she said.
ReplyDeleteThanks for that story, Erik. Mondrian was pretty darned exacting, even without the tape, but I get your point.
DeleteI like this very much, by the way.
ReplyDeleteAltoon, I think these prints are wonderful. And glad you use green.
ReplyDeleteThanks, alicia.
DeleteFreehand, the human hand? This print is wonderfully bold!
ReplyDeletethanks so much, Julie!
DeleteI favor the looseness of the human hand as it slides along the surface of an artwork. That to me is perfection.
ReplyDeleteIn a sense, Cecelia, there is no human hand here in that the ink is put on with a roller, as with much relief printing. But the medium of cardboard lends itself to a certain looseness.
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