Progress 1

I printed this lithograph with a alcohol and water wash on the stone for a galaxy background texture.

 This photograph I shot to layer on top of the galaxy background ^ The yolk will become the earth, and galaxy star fluid, the hand and egg will be surrounded by black nothingness, and flow out into the lithography texture.

 

I photographed the moon through my binoculars, and will use it as a stock image for building my galaxies.  

 

This is the copper plate I am etching to print on top of the background screen and intaglio layers. (prints backwards)

 The background is multi-color wiped intaglio, with screen print for the other layers.

Senior Project Proposal

     My senior project will focus on rendering surreal compositions which arise from my photography and hand drawn elements.  I will render these compositions using layers of printmaking methods such as lithography, screen print, and intaglio.  I am minoring in printmaking, which means I will be combining my efforts of my advanced printmaking class and the time allotted for senior project to produce as much prints as possible throughout the semester.  I imagine I will be able to produce 5-6 prints, but the schedule will depend on when the image appears complete, because printmaking is a workflow based on layers.

      The content of my work will be inspired by the question of “how does the creator God interact and or relate to creation?”  I am inspired by various culture’s descriptions of how the world was created.  One such myth believes the world hatched from an egg.  This has inspired a print I am currently working on, and it will be a hand breaking an egg from which the earth and galaxy are dripping out of. 

     The second print I am currently working on features a baby being fed the world on a spoon.  The background consists of a galaxy texture, and galaxy fluid is dripping down the babies’ face. 

     Another myth describes the human race being shaped from a clay substance, and baked for various periods of time.  The time the clay humans were baked resulted in how they explained the existence of different skin colors.  The scene of an artist, and clay shaper shaping the human race intrigues me and I would like to make a print which is a glimpse into this artful process.  I imagine a human head in the hands of the creator, being painted and shaped , implying the action by only being half painted and created.

    I am currently taking a “religions of the world” coarse which provides me with a constant flow of new knowledge of how various cultures picture their God.  I see the universe as a work of art, and I strive to investigate this idea of a God hand reaching in and manipulating creation.  I am also interested in the point when the creator becomes overwhelmed with creation, and decides to destroy it.  Last semester I did a print with pool balls subbed with planets, and a God hand reaching in and shooting these planets toward a black hole pool table pocket.  I want to continue this play on the idea of how vulnerable the universe is in relation to the creator, and how small we are in comparison.  I have a rough idea of a print set in a wheat field and a hand reaching in with a gun or some destructive device pointed at the skyline.  Where the field meets the ground, the sky will be the galaxy and planets.  My idea is after I print the composition, to actually shoot the print itself and have holes in the planets.

Clay sculpted human race: http://www.gly.uga.edu/railsback/CS/CSPotawatomi.html

Universe hatching from egg:

http://www.gly.uga.edu/railsback/CS/CSPG&NW.html

Doll factory:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27vNEMK8Ako