Graphics-3
After four previous years of experimentation, continuing the search for expression via etching, lino-cut, monotype and such mediums.
dated 2018 until 2022
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Just talking (territorial)
2022monoprint on thin layered paper, image 14.5x21
Halt - War no more (May 8th, 1945-2022)
2022woodcut
Gardening
2022collage of monoprint fragments, size image 20x15 cm
The scientist
2022"The scientist counted brain cells / and connections, // then he measured the distance / between boulders / in the stream, as related to / the strength and speed / of the current passing, // until an aching toe / drew his attention to / a shoe too narrow / for his foot."
Current (episode)
2022monotype over journal photo, image 13x18.5 cm
Bombarded city
2022Who is it / that thinks he may bomb a city / to destruction? // Where Ninive was spared by God. (protest against Putin's war, monoprint)
Nuclecstasy
2022While and when /seeking the core of senses / the nucleus of flashes / the pith of a posture or / the gold jar // and even more / the skeleton of oneself // It must to be realized /that the scratches on the surface / tell little about the content. monoprint
Archetype village
2021monoprint via oil-transfer
Thinking about earlier times
2021"Couds and sun, and earth: where I rest, there is / crumbly clay that harbours / the memory of a face, of / a jar in Hellas, / of a teacher at school." (lino-cut)
Monte Tramuten
2021etching-aquatint, image 10x13 cm, ed # 3
Loose ends
2020"loose ends are not / what they stand for" (monoprint)
Walking away
2021"Walking away from / a former state, towards / the next that soon / also will elapse and fade, // each new state less in size / than the last that / passed." (litography with ink and paint, image 15x18 cm)
Ascent
2021oil transfer drawing / monoprint, image 11x14 cm
Scribblings
2021"remnant of old zinc / scratches / a nail with sharp point // the impression of a stay / once, somewhere // for later." cold needle graphics
Inquiry into the mind
2021monoprint-mixed media
"Modisperes"
2021"Modisperes"
Movement - direction - speed - resistance in space
lino-cut, size image 10.3x16 cm
Island travels
2021"Sometimes the border runs in a circle / around the restrictions." monotype, image 17x13 cm
Part of our being
2021At the discovery of the denial / and the denial of the discovery / a crack did arise. // A crack in the façade, the control, / a leak in the pressure line of the inner side. // The doctor laughed with some compassion: / this was not covered by / the insurrance monoprint - ink transfer
"Beating the bush"
2020"People, yes I know / it is often better to evade a conflict / but I needed / brushing"
Entanglement
2021Not so much the tangles of / the outer world, have put / my thoughts in a clew, a maelstroom // but the absence of power / moving energy / in the right direction.
Complicit
2021collage of graphics
Pals
2021"Pals are there for another / equal and different / present or absent." (monotype, image 13x18 cm)
The general
2021"The general had two glasses / after arriving from Porto / and returned later by train."
Turns
2018Is it instability, that leads to turmoil,
or doubt, that makes you turn, or is it...?
monoprint, 5 layers
Stone-scape
2019study for etching, made in Macedonia (GR)
Three steps
2020In three steps the goal was reached / at a time the world was asleep / unaware of suffering and death. // The sun making it’s daily round / the moon still hiding / newspapers that hadn’t arrived. // The TV having gone black / when the neighbours left / without the cat. monoprint. size image 12x16 cm
In the background
2021collage of two monoprints, private collection
Characters
2020Characters / are meant / to generate power (monoprint on cloth on paper)
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
Water
2020monoprint
irritated
2020monotype, 2 phases, image 17x12.5 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
Phaescape
2020once phaenomena fill the scape monoprint image 14.5x19cm
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.
Escape
2020"Threat and escape are allies. // Anxiety is the fuel driving motion." monoprint, September 2020, image 10.5x16 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)
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)
Confident (in space)
2020"Space allows movement, / that – is – certain, / but do we lack strings?"
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)
Thought (flying)
2020Is there a nowhere / to go, / flying? monoprint, image 19x16 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)
Today
2020
"Today is May 30th, 2020", collage of two monoprints, image 15x27 cm
Cause and effect
2020"Where anger mixes with anxiety / and future becomes a fragile shell // Where denial mixes with neglect / and the past is long gone // There reason hides / and waits / for the next tide." (monoprint, collage)
Guerrier sans armes
2020"La première proposition c'etait de recruter des soldats d'âge de plus que soixante-dix années" (monoprint)
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
All of Us
2019"All of us / accepts no exception" (monotype, image 11x9 cm)