DrawingsPrints: Broken Book
2024
For each work in this series I began with a drawing in traditional media (charcoal, pastels), scanned that drawing, digitally modified and added to it to produce a new image, printed that image on paper, drew again on top of it, scanned that, digitally modified the result, printed that, and drew on top of the print again. The result is somewhere between what we normally call a print and a drawing. The process was at times very slow, with a print sitting pinned to a board for days waiting for me to see something I wanted to do to it. At other stages, the work progressed extremely quickly, with a drawing on top of the print being started and concluded within fifteen minutes.
Images are on 24" x 20" sheets of paper. (Acid-free Bristol Board) All were begun without a conscious intention of what I wanted to accomplish. Looking at the results, I feel they deal withwith beauty, pure visual (and emotional?) beauty. And with complexity.
As the series progressed, I began to include handprints within the imagery. The drawing->print->drawing approach continued.
Several of these works became part of an artist book I was concurrently working on. That work is entitled Broken Book.
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