Sunday, March 15, 2009

New project: Untitled Landscapes








For my new project, just started this week, I am going in a very new direction. I am creating line screened offset lithographs and polymer plate "Landscapes". As usual, my interests lie in the construction of images as they transverse different mediums and paradigms and so these particular landscapes come from digital gaming worlds and then get "translated" into traditional and older analog reproduction techniques. 

In all cases, I would like to preserve some of the unreal whimsy or romance of the original, while transforming it into something wholly ambiguous.

the only real issue right now, is that the outcomes are quite aesthetic, and as a general rule, i prefer when the aesthetics play a secondary role to the thought being generated.

I will have to try more and see how the process works as a generator of interesting questions.

This was also a practice run for me working with the large offset printer and though it was fun to learn, my body is still aching from the two days of printing with it. It does feel good to use my entire body to create something again, as sitting in front of a computer can sometimes be very alienating.