Screenprint

the New Nature, Part I, 2007

Screenprint. 8 x 8 inches, edition of 12 with 4 artist proofs.

I made this for a class print exchange.

At the time, I had planned on making it the first of a series, each portraying a facade of contemporary architecture, with the idea that these surroundings are, to me and those around me, as natural as anything else we encounter–the New Nature.

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Untitled (Sea Turtles), 2007

Screenprint. 10 x 10 inches, edition of 5.

My very first screenprint!

I took a summer course at Pratt, taught by the lovely and talented Kristen Ramirez. I’d recently had a dream about sea turtles flying over the Seattle cityscape, and when I put the memory of it to paper, the image became much more ominous: the turtles weren’t in the air… the city was underwater. For a first attempt, this was pretty ambitious. Including a final translucent layer for sheen, there are seven colors in all!

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