Here is part of my "nest" ruminations. I purchased a Bible and what seems to be a Chinese Hymnal several months ago at a Goodwill in Phoenix. The paper is very thin, translucent almost and the text is delicate enough to read as an overall value in the background. I took the books to Kinko's and had the spines cut off - I felt really bad doing that to the Bible...But I did it anyway. And yesterday I started cutting this nest into a small linoblock I had laying around in the studio. It was all very impulsive. I stopped cutting and printed a proof, but I was so surprised by how well it looked I didn't bother revising the cut block at all instead I began printing my edition of 25. Yea! I love them. Please forgive the magnet included in the image of the print. They were still hanging up to dry when I photographed them.
BTW if anyone knows someone who can read Chinese characters I am very interested in learning what is written on the pages on which I printed. Thanks!
2 comments:
I don't know what Kanji is but when you said Chinese I thought of Cory, Tyler's cousin, who spent lots of time studying Chinese at one point. Let me know if you want his email address, I don't want to post it on here. You do such creative things!!
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So this edition of 25...what happens to it? Do you open up an Etsy shop and make your wares available to the crafty generation?
You say nest and I believe you...also, though, I'm seeing web. As in spider, with a caught lunch, suspended between two tall trees, dappled in shade and vulnerable slightly.
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