19 July 2012

Mixed Feelings #7 - Paper

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MIXED FEELINGS #7: PAPER
Japanese-method woodblock (moku hanga) with transfer drawing
Image size: 10.25" x 17" (26 x 43 cm)
Paper size: 12.5" x 19" (63.5 x 98 cm)
Paper: Shikoku White
Edition: 10
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Printmakers and money go together like peanut butter and jelly
This pair of cliches about money reveals the dilemma we face in using printed money. It's just paper. Really special paper, made of cotton and linen and colored fiber inclusions, but still just paper. Its value comes from us, from our minds and hearts, not from the paper and not from the ink. I suspect that a lot of printmakers and artists who work on paper will recognize this conundrum.

The words in black are modeled on my father's handwriting.

16 July 2012

Mixed Feelings #6 - Hands

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MIXED FEELINGS #6: HANDS
Japanese-method woodblock (moku hanga) with transfer drawing
Image size: 10.25" x 17" (26 x 43 cm)
Paper size: 12.5" x 19" (63.5 x 98 cm)
Paper: Shikoku White
Edition: 10
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When I was a child my mom told me never to put my hands in my mouth after touching money. She said money is dirty because so many people have touched it.

This is the sixth print in a series examining figures of speech about money that use the same metaphor for both wealth and poverty. The words in black are modeled on my father's handwriting.

09 July 2012

Mixed Feelings #5 - Piles

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MIXED FEELINGS #5: PILES
Japanese-method woodblock (moku hanga) with transfer drawing
Image size: 10.25" x 17" (26 x 43 cm)
Paper size: 12.5" x 19" (63.5 x 98 cm)
Paper: Shikoku White
Edition: 10
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This is the fifth print in a series examining figures of speech about money that use the same metaphor for both wealth and poverty. The "pile" in this image is based on a photograph of a pile of dried cow dung. The words in black are modeled on my father's handwriting.

Four more to go in this little series of works.

02 July 2012

Show at Ferrin Gallery


If you find yourself in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts over the July 4 holiday, stop in at Ferrin Gallery in Pittsfield on July 6 from 6 to 8 pm for the opening of the latest installment of “Zea Mays Printmaking at Ferrin.” Nanny Vonnegut (image on right) and I share a wall with her monotypes and my Loaded series woodblock prints. You can also see the amazing and beautiful COVET show while you're there.