I guess to give myself something to update this post with I’m going to be posting notes that I’ve made in my sketchbook(s). I probably wouldn’t/won’t be doing that if the topic at hand does not pertain, but perhaps this will cause a greater discussion for me that can be seen as relevant. That’s the meta-background for this and future posts. Now on to the background more specifically for this one.
This is for printmaking, obviously, but it definitely pertains to a larger conversation for me, as I’m sure you will be able to pick out. Due to the [lack of] resources at the university not everyone does the same project at the same time. On top of that the subject matter is completely up to us. This is thus causing me to think about subject a little differently now that I’m well into an art degree and realizing that my [God given] creations need to come from somewhere and go somewhere.
In short, these are brainstorming notes.
(this was a few days ago)
“The tension of faith and life. the thing in itself. realty. What is printmaking? (intaligo, litho) What is faith? How do the two of them mix and combine? I want to be, I do not want to to do. printmaking is about the reproduction. faith is more than tension. Then what is faith? How may I know the MOST HIGH through art? How may I discover Him?
[It must be sent from above.]“
(This was from today. I’m referencing the intaglio, yes I spelled it wrong in my sketchbook, process here. I’ll explain the intaglio process later and perhaps include pictures. That just means I’ll have to lug my camera around, which is okay.)
“combining two or more plates, erode the frame. hanging in space. Havce the tensions rise. double exposure. one over the other. I need the divine, and the unseen, to collide with the everyday. Is the supernatural hovering (above) or [below] the surface? a bit of both. I want to do that literally, but not in some sort of photorealistic manner.”
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