Its been a long time since I've posted anything in this section. I've been super busy with the program I designed for myself this quarter (students at my college can make their own classes as long as they get sponsored by a faculty member). I don't think I'll be showing any of that work until I'm completed with the class, but the premise of the contract is showing the concepts, devices and goals of transhumanism. I'll be depicting these cutting edge technologies with a printing method thats nearly 600 years old: copper engraving. Of course I have small informal essays each week plus scores of notes and drawings, its been fun but extremely stressful.
Anyway, what I did want to show was this lino cut I made. I'm currently a studio technician in the printing studio (not photography, but intaglio, silk screening, lithography, type printing, that sort of stuff) and the studio head wanted me to make some examples in the methods I just mentioned for the classes that are working down there this quarter. This is a linoleum block that I worked on for about three hours. If only I could work that fast in copper. I haven't printed it yet, but I've always like relief carvings more than the printed product anyway.
The scene is a typical landscape in the swampy mossy lowlands of the Pacific Northwest. Everything was cut freehand except the hanging moss which I sketched out first as you can see.
