Did I tell you how much I love to screen print? There’s something of an alchemy in screen printing I never knew til I began to experiment. If you enjoy an unpredictable path to imagery I urge you to give this a try if the opportunity comes your way. It’s the most magical thing!
For instance: painting the screen with Procion (fabric) dye at letting it dry, then printing with white ink on white paper, you get this kinda effect of a shadow, dimensional kinda thing.
A similar process is described here by Kerr Grabowski
The photos are poor quality (from phone, wobbling with giddy excitement at the print!) but you get the idea.
Then there’s the masking off areas with torn paper, and going back to doodle in the gaps. Some overprinting and joining the overprints in the same way
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White on black on white; orange and blue on monochrome, semi-opaque, translucent and solid intense blockiness. Go on, let the imagination do the running! Let the ideas fly.
Oh, but wait a mo, didn’t this have something to do with self portraits? isn’t that where we began?
Did the gecko run off with the wrong end of the conversation and get lost down another rabbit hole?
Maybe, maybe not.
Check back again and we’ll see if these loose ends can be knitted back up into something resembling a thing again. (A real thing? well, maybe, yes)
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