Absit Omen, 2012, 12 x 8 7/8 inches (plate); two-plate, two-color etching. Much to my regret, I only ever printed one of these with this beautiful torinoko chine-collé. I pulled 3 with an okawara chine-collé, but those prints are not as rich and crisp as this one.
This is the only artwork I’ve ever dreamed into being: in my dream, I had completed the dark border of cawing crow-heads and was working out a sketch for the central image (though it was far less resolved than the woman sitting primly on the ruins’ stairs shown in the final print). The dream was intensely and minutely visual. In my waking life, I had been reading darkly comic Slavic folk tales and regularly hiking past the so-called Witch’s Castle in Forest Park, which no doubt inspired my subconscious. (The ruin began its life in the 1930’s as a public toilet, a fact that makes its colloquial name charmingly absurd.) This and other prints are included in an online exhibition presented by UPFOR through March 17, 2021. Go take a look at bit.ly/birdsong-stories.
Absit Omen, 2012, 12 x 8 7/8 inches (plate); two-plate, two-color etching. Much to my regret, I only ever printed one of these with this beautiful torinoko chine-collé. I pulled 3 with an okawara chine-collé, but those prints are not as rich and crisp as this one.
This is the only artwork I’ve ever dreamed into being: in my dream, I had completed the dark border of cawing crow-heads and was working out a sketch for the central image (though it was far less resolved than the woman sitting primly on the ruins’ stairs shown in the final print). The dream was intensely and minutely visual. In my waking life, I had been reading darkly comic Slavic folk tales and regularly hiking past the so-called Witch’s Castle in Forest Park, which no doubt inspired my subconscious. (The ruin began its life in the 1930’s as a public toilet, a fact that makes its colloquial name charmingly absurd.) This and other prints are included in an online exhibition presented by UPFOR through March 17, 2021. Go take a look at bit.ly/birdsong-stories.
