This weekend I took a drive through the pumpkin patches and apple orchards of Hatfield and Whately to Sunderland MA to see Mike's Maze at Warner Farm. Designed and cut by artist William Sillin, these huge cornfield mazes have been an annual tradition at Warner Farm since 2000. I was excited to hear that this year's maze was an homage to Andy Warhol the printmaker!
Here's the view from inside the maze. Fortunately, you get a map to help you get around. In this maze, there are 16 "printing stations" which, if you find them all, allow you to make CMYK reproductions of four famous paintings.
Each station consists of a wooden platform with a lid that holds a rubber stamp and an ink pad, plus a sign indicating the correct orientation for your printing paper.
At the entrance you're given two sheets of paper plus a board to use at the stations. When you find a station, you place your paper and the board in the orientation indicated…
Then close the lid and push down to print.
As with all printmaking, it's a lot of fun to watch the art emerge. Here's how mine looked after an hour or so in the maze:
15 comments:
What a wonderful post, thanks for tweeting about it. Sounds like an amazing and inspirational trip. The prints created as you explored are stunning.
Wow! That is a fabulous experience!
I went to school in the area and would love to come back for a visit. Such a beautiful time of year to do so!
This is the kewlest idea! What fun.
how wonderful - to have printmaking in the cornfield - a perfect pairing
I've never heard of anything like this before- it looks like a tremendous amount of fun!
So great! This is much cooler than the regular old corn mazes we used to go to in New Hampshire. I think it is excellent that they are introducing so many people to printmaking like that. I was blown away by the results. I've never tried making CMYK stamps, but now I really want to. Thanks for sharing!
That's amazing! Also, I love your new web design. <3
That must seem like magic to non-printers! Because even we all think that it's just too cool.
What a top idea!
Thank you for blogging about it Annie.
Celia
Wow! I can't wait to go this year!
That is sooo neat. I wish I lived closer and could do that. was it hard to get it to register right?...you are experienced but I wonder if someone that wasn't as experienced would come out pretty close to your results.
So very cool!
WOW! I wanna go there NOW! When does the bus from the west head out, does anyone know?
@Cosmic Arcata - The biggest problem people seemed to have with it was figuring out how to orient the paper each time, cuz sometimes it needed to be upside down.
What a great idea! I want to go!
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