Nothing went quite as I planned. The things I thought would look great fell flat. Luckily there were a few surprises.
I don’t know. The stencils aren’t behaving as I’d like, and I can’t seem to get any detail onto them. Or I can, but it doesn’t print. And I know, there’s no contrast in these images. Maybe I should try to carve a stamp of some sort for them, or try carving into linoleum. There are a million printmaking techniques but not so many that you can do at home without a press.
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My work deals with themes of human and nonhuman intelligence, and what it means to return home when the nature of home itself is nebulous and undefined. As an interdisciplinary artist with homebases in painting and printmaking, I explore the interstitial spaces between these and other media, relishing the borderlands–the slippage between idea and medium. Lens based ways of looking interact with a fierce love of materiality that echoes the earth itself, and the ways in which humanity interacts with the homeostatic systems that comprise Gaia, the living earth.
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Printmaking is tough, but can result in ashtonishing images when you “get” it. Although I know very little about printmaking, I’ve always found the images fascinating. Good luck with your experiments and hope you’ll have a better day tomorrow! 🙂
Thank you Hwee! I’m pretty new myself to this medium, there is so much to learn!