7project

The Wind Up Bird ;Haruki Murakami

"Once again i am myself inside my own body"

A lifetime ago, i found time to read novels, long National Geographic articles about exotic & interesting places & people;anything really. It was never distracting from the everyday existence rather it enhanced it completely. I really love this falling into characters & spaces so it seems strange to not do it so easily now. For instance i have had "The Life & Opinions of Maf the Dog & of his Friend Marilyn Monroe" by Andrew OHagan (The paris Review-on-maf-the-dog ) by my bed for over 2 months& i know its a great book too.

As you can see i find it frustrating... and recently whilst looking through some journals i had noted various lines(beautiful sentences) that reasonated with me from all the novels that id read & thought as ideas for prints....As part of the process im making them into a 7 Day drawing project that may one day appear as prints. One day!
These are the first set of ink drawings on cotton paper

Making Books

It feels as though it has been a long & short week ..Easter celebrations & a lot of real home time which as it turns out was very relaxing. Moving on to ANZAC day http://www.awm.gov.au/commemoration/anzac/anzac-tradition/#dawn  & something i observe within a distance & some puzzlement.  I attempted to make books, did several drawings & actually threw out a few old print mishaps that i was keeping to do something with. That made me a bit uneasy; i just don't like to waste the paper. I let it go only because i seem to have accumulated more than i need. I did find a few remnants that could be saved & turned into books so we shall see the results soon i hope.
I also received the catalogues from Hong Kong containing the biggest catalogues I've seen this year. This was an exhibition in which i collected all the Impress Printmakers Studio prints included in the Graphic Arts Festival Convergence/Divergence.The open-printshop has details in their newsletter

Portraits with bird of paradise

Am collecting bird of paradise images to incorporate with New Guinea portraits...I dont know if there is a more astonishing bird species than the BOP (Family Paradisaeidae)

Read more at National Geo site

Screenprint

A few possibilities; i am thinking about screenprinting the text (regarding memory) onto the etchings & have been arranging a few things in photoshop. Lately i have been looking at type & text a lot more closely,enjoying the visual qualities i guess...talking about artists using tpe... Art21 has a guest blogger writing about  Glenn Ligon & his text based works which i found today as i looked at art21 for class ideas...i wish i had more time to read..

Etching Proof on White

...another etching from doublings series at the first stage... i think i prefer the stark white which i rarely use however there are usually a few changes until the final state...Now to keep it simple.

Gallery of proofs

Etching on zinc

Another etching in progress.. Much of my time  looking at some interesting books to cut up which has been consuming. I am really excited about the latest sets of etchings so ill post results soon