So these are a few of the prints from my final portfolio exchange for my advanced research in printmaking. The edition totaled out to be 16 prints, but 12 of those were distributed to other students in the class, so i do not have them. these are three of the 4 i retained because i thought they were the most successful.
So the prints were built up with layers of fun. the first layer on all of them was a collograph (don't know what that means? Wikipedia does, i just don't feel like explaining it). Then some of them (all of the above three) got a second and different textured collograph that i inked up in a transparent white to push back the first collograph. the rest of the prints got chin colled (def: a collage process in which papers are laminated using glue and pressure prior to or after the final inking of a print). and then i laid down the final etching layer which is the outline figure, farmland-like lined plots as well as some finger-print texture and some hands which are meant to look like part of the landscape texture too...
what was the point you ask? well, let me tell you! I named this print "Moro Reflex" which the term for the falling reflex that babies get when they're laying down... it was a less cheesy title than something to do with Icarus, alright? the idea originates from another print (to the left) and has a little more complexity. It all started with a Mars Volta quote, "One day this chalk outline will circle the city..." i liked that image, so i made a print last year, but never really completed an edition of it. So this year i changed it a little, but used the same linework (which i like and am still scared of doing things like aquatinting...)It has to do with identity, landscape, setting, etc. I like that looking at the images of "moro reflex" it's up to the viewer to discern where it is and what exactly is going on, like is the figure a silhouette or a solid shape.
the texture is really nice too. yay for collograph, it did all the work for me :)
semester is over now. haven't taken many photos since i started drowning in my classes, but i'm hoping to get some things done this summer. we'll see how it goes though.
it's going to be crazy.
