Graphics-2
With pleasure and some confidence after first year in graphics, decided to continue. Use of ink or paint to produce image by printing or imprinting. Doesn't matter how. This selection includes period early 2019 till end of 2020.
dated 2018 until 2021
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Searching (otherwise)
2021Is the primary drive for a search / a need, a necessity or a wish / or is searching an autonomous trait? (monoprint)
Moods
2021"every side can be reversed / and the contrast is enhanced / by a third party" (collage of monoprint fragments)
Stance (elsewhere)
2019"A block of wood / can be made to see / and speak / with just four carvings." (Woodcut, size image 8x12 cm)
Thought (flying)
2020Is there a nowhere / to go, / flying? monoprint, image 19x16 cm
Trash no more
2020Flattened by tyres / a can was picked up and made / to express my view print ed 1/3, image 11.5x11.5 cm
wandering into the past
2020A sheet of paper found / with an oval drawn / alone, took the old Erika / typewriter and words / came thoughtfully. // Equally, their sense was / obliterated, hidden / with ink that / slate fragments left.
You
2020"The artist's view: you are / what you tell me" (monoprint, image 15x21 cm)
Today
2020
"Today is May 30th, 2020", collage of two monoprints, image 15x27 cm
The Entry
2020The belief that the enemy /comes from outside / must be crushed / and discarded. // Everyone may become /a fiend, / best friends for all. (etching on old zinc, image 12.5x10 cm, edition 4)
Entrance into a silent state
2020monoprint - collage, image size 17.5x25 cm
Remote landscapes
2020"The impression of / two sides of one / eroded surface / became a delicate / array of lines." Dry needle on two sides of erodes plate of zinc
Escape
2020"Threat and escape are allies. // Anxiety is the fuel driving motion." monoprint, September 2020, image 10.5x16 cm
Branches
2019monotype
Viewing different directions
2019If in one image / the looks have the same focus // the decision might become / to go along. // Here, a question / is formulated. (Size image 12.5x15 cm)
righteous
2020All around / there are people with opinions, / people with outspoken opinions, / and silent men and women. // (Some prefer not to be / labelled according to sex.) // Opinions about onions / rarely stir emotions, / those about wine more often. // (Opinions about opinions / are most dangerous.) // See the body talk, / look at the feet, the hands, / the direction of the eyes, / and wait for a few seconds / before you get involved.
Standing before the gate
2018
"The gates were made first / to provide a certain distance /
to the landscape. // Then the place of the guard was decided / to be before the gate. // Which given the current circumstances / seems appropriate.
lino-cut, 23x32 cm paper size
Still crawling
2019Still crawling, even if / grounds sink into depths // movement does not halt / since elementary urges // have inner bases and / primary resources // of energy. (monoprint image 12x15,56 cm)
Diagram of the mind
2019"Whilst one guide aimed / to keep the design straight / and rectangular (where feasible), the others favored / a more complex model." (monoprint)
Mise-en-scene
2019Le paradoxe / etait mise-en-scene (mixed media monoprint)
sheer joy
2019"Now, there is no time / for sorrow or grief / for angriness or / greed. // Now, it is time / for sheer joy / just now" (monoprint)
Absent
2019The image is determined by what is absent (monoprint image 12x17 cm)
Collision
2019(monoprint made with discarded carton, with acknowledgements to Jadwiga)
On the road
2020Juvenile cores / advance through land / craters left by bombs, / keys created by anxiety. // Drifting clouds / harassed by a large / artificial wheel / mock the people / armless and sheltered. (image size 15x10 cm)
Phaescape
2020once phaenomena fill the scape monoprint image 14.5x19cm
Understanding the causes
2019Understanding the causes / of being and beings / is a task without end. (etching, size image 15x9 cm, ed 1/4)
Transience
2019"Creation of art / interrupts the flux towards transience / for as long as it lasts." (monoprint with collage, size image 13x20 cm, edition 1/1)
Guerrier sans armes
2020"La première proposition c'etait de recruter des soldats d'âge de plus que soixante-dix années" (monoprint)
Meeting
2018Meeting of trees moving / through abstract landscape / a tough journey / made with floating roots" monoprint, 4 phases)
Barricade-2
2018"The essence of a barricade / becomes palpable at visualization" (image size 10x15, ed 1/1)
Elements of speach
2018Elements of speach / do adhere to hearings / when held high, up / against the wall / of difference. monoprint 1/1, image 29x20 cm
Naiad
2018"The place, from which the Naiad / raises the arms / in a gesture that / asks attention or silence, // changes continuously/ under pressure / of the space." (monoprint, 10 layers, size image 11x17 cm)
Pathways
2018
Walking about / goes through bushes and hedges / with thorns and ticks. // At some times pathways / will be chosen / as these were laid down / by precursors and ancestors /
in an evident logic.
(Etched lino-cut, ed 1/4, size image 16.5 square, paper 23 cm square)
The Struggle of visionary souls
2018"The struggle of visionary souls / does not know clarity / nor solution and lacks / justification" lithography, size image 19x23 cm, paper 32x45 cm, ed. 1/5)
Moving
2018"within a second / the scene will change" (monoprint, size image 11x15 cm)
Hearing
2018
Sounds, words, whispers / catched by ears / if present.
(Monoprint, size image 10x15, paper 23x26 cm)
non-autotypic mediation
2020the lines are defined by leaf / and needle / as placed in wax and acid / while paying tribute / to guides who understand / the language of image. etching, ed 1/2
Toughts arising
2020"Connections and elements / drawn with acid / bind the thoughts / that try to rise / despite the pressure / applied against / their flight" (image 8x12.7 cm)
Before (the screen)
2018Solemnity, honesty and character. // Three traits that are on the red list. (mixed media of monoprint and linocut, ed 1/1)
Abstract (ardor)
2018monoprint 1/1
The road
2018The road twines around / the pits on the way / targetting the next level. // Tucked in deep pockets / ambition dozes, to / appear at an unexpected moment. (monoprint, 3 phases, 1/1)
Would old liaisons suffice?
2018"looking in the distance / would old liaisons suffice?"
Listening to a distant sound
2018
monoprint and lino-cut, three phases (edition 1/1).
Size 18x26 cm
The mountainfish
2018"The red mountainfish / resides at the border of / green land and yellow sky." (etching, ecoline ink, size image 14x10 cm)
Perception
2018"Activity of inner consciencesness / may hamper or even block / appreciation of outside viewings " (monoprint, one phase)
Intertwined
2019"The movement of dark matter / was retarded when intertwined with threads of red" size image 17x22 cm