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Process  On the animals and instruments viscosity monoprints series: This series of viscosity monotypes evolved naturally from early fascinations with natural science and music. I am inspired by the elegance and beauty of animals in the natural world as well as the myriad associations and personifications that have been assigned to them over time. Equally compelling for me is the imagination and engineering involved in the design of musical instruments, full of creative potential, which carry the power and beauty of music with only a bit of air or friction. For all the unlikelihood of any actual physical proximity, I find visual similarities between animals and instruments in terms of shape and form, bridging the natural world and one that has been crafted. The unexpected combination of subject matter leads to spontaneous narratives that explore and play with formal, cultural, emotional, historical, whimsical relationships. The prints evolve variously from a number of ideas that provide the spark for the narrative: the mood of a piece of music, the natural environment of a species, a specific geographic location, or the historical period in which an instrument was used. The process I use to create this series of viscosity monotype prints begins with using a variety of tools to apply and remove ink on a blank metal plate. This part of the process is very much like painting. A layer of tackier ink is then rolled over the entire surface of the plate in one pass, filling in those areas that I have left exposed. The plate is put through a printing press, transferring the image onto paper. As the image may only be printed once, each print is unique. |