Borshoff
The Borshoff communications agency is working with my department to help them celebrate their 24th anneversary. They are doing a show of prints based on the theme "Communication 24/7". I pulled an all-nighter yesterday finishing my piece and building a frame and getting it all set up. They have a video about it on their homepage (yeah, I'm in the video working on a wood cut).
This is what I put in:
Titled:
Analeptic Anagnorisis (Anabolic Antenna)
40" x 32" framed (handmade frame too. . . that's right).
My submitted text (for the $1000 purchade award for their corporate art collection):
Historic propaganda posters often featured a closed fist to signify the physical might of a single ideology as it struggled against its adversary. Today business communications labor in an inverse manner to develop relations. The historic image of the closed fist has become a tree-like antenna symbolizing determined, sociable progression. The week's days are represented by seven suspended informants who all radiate an indicator for each hour of the day.
It took from 8PM until 4AM last night just drawing those radiant pencil lines around all the bubbles (because I do it with a mechanical pencil, like an idiot . . . probably the most labor intensive tool I could choose for that particular visual device).
Shakey coffee hands.
And my favorite part:
The word bubbles are printed on separate sheets of really thin Japanese Paper and adhered to the print. They over-lapped the decal (that's the ragged edge of the art paper) and I trimmed them to the exact ripple of the original sheet.
Some of the small bubble prints before they got cut down to bubble shapes.
These are the first wood cuts I've ever done.
I think I'm in love with the process.
I'm a natural-born woodsman!
This is what I put in:
Titled:
Analeptic Anagnorisis (Anabolic Antenna)
40" x 32" framed (handmade frame too. . . that's right).
My submitted text (for the $1000 purchade award for their corporate art collection):
Historic propaganda posters often featured a closed fist to signify the physical might of a single ideology as it struggled against its adversary. Today business communications labor in an inverse manner to develop relations. The historic image of the closed fist has become a tree-like antenna symbolizing determined, sociable progression. The week's days are represented by seven suspended informants who all radiate an indicator for each hour of the day.
It took from 8PM until 4AM last night just drawing those radiant pencil lines around all the bubbles (because I do it with a mechanical pencil, like an idiot . . . probably the most labor intensive tool I could choose for that particular visual device).
Shakey coffee hands.
And my favorite part:
The word bubbles are printed on separate sheets of really thin Japanese Paper and adhered to the print. They over-lapped the decal (that's the ragged edge of the art paper) and I trimmed them to the exact ripple of the original sheet.
Some of the small bubble prints before they got cut down to bubble shapes.
These are the first wood cuts I've ever done.
I think I'm in love with the process.
I'm a natural-born woodsman!
posted by Matthew Pazzol at 12:35 PM
1 Comments:
I love doing woodcuts!! Ill have to dig up some photos of the ones I've done to show you. It's been years!
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