I updated the Art section with some prints from last semester that I am itching to work on again. The photographs, while nice, fail to capture the intricacies of the plates. When I recovered photographs from my camera the other day, I came across these:
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That is how the zinc plates look with the asphaltum ground on them. The scratched lines in the ground create places for the metal to be eaten away when placed into an acid bath. I love the look of a grounded plate because the exposed metal gleams in the light.
As ordinary as they can be, though, I seem to like lines an awful lot. My focus on those repetitive line etchings last semester provided some insight into lines I had drawn in other works. If you poke around the portfolio portion of this website, perhaps you will see what I mean. The line that wraps around a printed figure or the line of a edge of paper - there is something there that I am just drawn to. Currently, I am cutting and splicing and reattaching the text lines of a book for a piece for my Thesis Show. Get ready for a new form of line!
As decided yesterday, here's what my show card will look like:
I'd fill you in on the show information, but it's still getting hammered out. What I can say is that the show will be in a space with probably white walls somewhere in the confines of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It will feature myself and six other Printmaking majors and fourteen Sculpture majors and will be up for the month of April with a reception or two!
Exciting, but oh, so much work to do!
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• • • • • • Blog-worthy? • • • • • February 19, 2007
I made a little icon for the Address Bar! Maybe you can see it in your browser? Hope so.
I recovered some lost photographs from my camera last night and have spent all morning compiling and organizing them. I thought these photos were lost and gone forever, but technology is kind of neat and hid them somewhere on my camera or something technical like that. Anyway, expect some updates in the next few days of some older work and some new work, too!
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• • • • • • Up & Running! • • • • • February 5, 2007
Welcome to the new and improved site!
I am still working a few bugs out, but I really just wanted to get this thing online finally. Let me know if there are any major issues, please.
Most importantly, though, stay warm.
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