printing

     There are two types of prints in this gallery, block printing, where the image is carved, and collagraph, where the image is constructed by materials being added to a flat printing plate.

 

     I enjoy printing because of the balance between the image and the practical three-dimensional concerns of carving or building the printing plate. In the prints themselves, ink and color become objects, occupying the thin layer of space above the paper. The ink floats, frozen in a delicate grid work of pattern and color. The original carving or collagraph is transformed and reinterpreted in the finished print.