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>>In certain areas where I don't want the acid to affect, so that the tree form--that
was exposed to acid, several different times in different strengths. This one was just
scratched in--dry point, they call it.\ \
I really like this kind of print-making. It's really fun.\
\ I played around with it and I couldn't really
do it with painting at the time, so I went to printmaking. Because it was a new media
to work in, it made me go back to it as a child.\
\ And I realized as I was creating the print
matrixes--it really engaged my whole body. There's a very sculptural process, even just
to pull the prints themselves. You're rolling through the press, you're moving it, with
Intaglios you're digging in to the metal.\ \
This helped me kind of remember and engage my senses. It was kind of that aha moment.
Let's start actually creating real surfaces and sculptural relief form, and combining
it with the painting. That's how this series of works evolved.\
\ The other thing that I started doing--thinking
about the layering of nature--is I started working what I call cycles or layers of creation
that I might create a series of prints--some drawings from life, some smaller paintings
from life, and in and of themselves, they are finished pieces--but then I have this
collection of works that's new material you know as much as you have paint to create an
image, vie got imagery plus paint and i start responding to these pieces and putting them
in new combinations and then thats the beginning of a new composition. From that I start building
and thinking about relationships between the smaller pieces. Now it's incorporated into
a different composition that's evolving and then I start thinking of sculptural form.
How do all of these pieces fit together to create a total experience? And that really
is what I'm trying to do--to create an experience, rather than something you look at, you experience
it and you feel it with your whole body. It has a relationship to how we relate to the
landscape. If you walk into the woods, you don't just stand there to look at it from
one fixed perspective, and even if you did, within the course of fifteen minutes, there's
going to be changes--changes in the light, a bird flies through, leaves fall down--so
i wanted to create that sense of movement and change because this is what really happens
in nature.\ \
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