Austrian Sky
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A black and white print on paper of a photograph of clouds and a valley in Spital, Austria is held in my hand against the wall. Upon close inspection it can be seen that the image is made up of many small dots.
Hokay, so…
Working toward starting a print club because I really like the idea of making accessible art, and I’ve been experimenting with some processes and materials toward that end.
This is the first experimental image - I took a photo near Spital, Austria, and after some editing I converted it to halftones, because I’ve long been a sucker for vintage offset printing in comic books (grew up around Archie and Sad Sack comics from the 60’s) and Roy Lichtenstein and screen printing, etc.
When I was a photography student in undergrad I was always drawn to alternative photo processes, especially those where I got to remove intermediate machines/tools, etc., and feel like I was working more directly with the image with my hands.
Here I pushed that a little farther, with a rubber stamp of the halftone dot pattern. Felt like I was pushing a photograph into existence with my bare hands, which was fun.
This print of the Austrian sky I sent to my friend and longtime beloved critic JD in Michigan both because he deserves nice things and as thanks for his insight and opinions as I’ve thought through things around this print series.
When I finally get around to it in the hopefully near future, my first print club image will be related to this image and will be free (as a promotional effort to hopefully land on folks’ radars again with my art). I’ll let y’all know when that happens so you can check it out.
Until then, I’m just pleased with and proud of this li’l experimental piece.
Working toward starting a print club because I really like the idea of making accessible art, and I’ve been experimenting with some processes and materials toward that end.
This is the first experimental image - I took a photo near Spital, Austria, and after some editing I converted it to halftones, because I’ve long been a sucker for vintage offset printing in comic books (grew up around Archie and Sad Sack comics from the 60’s) and Roy Lichtenstein and screen printing, etc.
When I was a photography student in undergrad I was always drawn to alternative photo processes, especially those where I got to remove intermediate machines/tools, etc., and feel like I was working more directly with the image with my hands.
Here I pushed that a little farther, with a rubber stamp of the halftone dot pattern. Felt like I was pushing a photograph into existence with my bare hands, which was fun.
This print of the Austrian sky I sent to my friend and longtime beloved critic JD in Michigan both because he deserves nice things and as thanks for his insight and opinions as I’ve thought through things around this print series.
When I finally get around to it in the hopefully near future, my first print club image will be related to this image and will be free (as a promotional effort to hopefully land on folks’ radars again with my art). I’ll let y’all know when that happens so you can check it out.
Until then, I’m just pleased with and proud of this li’l experimental piece.
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