New Prints: A Cardboard and a Passel of Potato

Triangle, Circle, Square; ink on gampi smooth paper; image size 10 x 12 in, paper size 18 1/2 x 19 3/4 in.; editon 3

I had fun during my most recent printing printing session, doing a cardboard print and then launching into a long series of potato prints, stamping away with abandon. Even though some of them are "maybe's" I'm showing you all of them (and I threw only one in the trash). For the cardboard print Triangle, Circle, Square, I chose to use only corrugated lines to make the shapes, having no solid shapes at all. It gives the image a quavering quality, as though the color can't quite get its voice heard; it looks more assured when you step up close to the image. Perhaps this makes it too tentative?

Untitled 10, ink on Twinrocker paper, 8 x 7 1/8 in. 

I started this small potato print with a square at the center, and then got ready to add other elements. But I said to myself: "Stop!", so I did. I thought the square had enough interest in the variation in the ink for it to work. I like it, though it might be too simple. I have a couple of regrets in showing these works online: one is that you can't see the texture of the paper or its character; the other is that everything appears to be the same size: a work like Untitled 10 seems as large as the bigger one below. 

Untitled 11, ink on Masa dosa paper, 15 x 11 in. 

Here, three ovals horizontally, three ovals vertically; each stamped without recharging the ink, so a lighter and lighter echo.

Untitled 12, ink on Twinrocker paper, 2 panels, each 14 1/2 x 7 in.

 The idea for this piece, with a black line rising from the edge of the paper, came from a painting by El Lizzitsky that I saw at the Museum of Modern Art recently; he had forms and lines falling off the edge of the image.

Untitled 13, ink on Nishinouchi paper, 20 x 15 in. 

A grid of open forms, bounded by black lines.

Untitled 14, ink on Twinrocker paper, 15 x 7 in.

I've been thinking about pink and black this week.

Untitled 15, ink on Nishinouchi paper, 9 1/2 x 15 in. 

Pastel forms, floating above and below a violet line.

Untitled 16, ink on Twinrocker paper, 7 x 7 in.

A black bar over extended circles.

Untitled 17, ink on Ninshinouchi paper, 15 x 13 in. 

Three forms pointed toward two circles: growth or violence?

Untitled 18, ink on Gifu green tea light paper, 11 x 11 in. 

Lastly: open rectangles, as though hopscotched with yellow circles.