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Flat Studies

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West Pierce at Marconi
         These are various kinds of inherently flat subjects with textural information that barely leaves the plane of the surface.  These planar surfaces can be:
  • asphalt into which vehicular traffic has embedded objects which, if not initially flat, soon become so
  • beach sand in which the erosive polishing action of the wind acts to flatten any projection
  • watercourse mud banks in which shore birds have left their tracks or aquatic insects have left a different variety of squiggley traces
  • wall surfaces which have begun to erode, thus revealing underlying human efforts to modify them.
As a printmaker, I look at these "Flat Studies" and think that I would like to print them. If they could be cut from their matrix and inked with printmaking inks, they would make excellent collagaphs.
Picture
West Pierce at Marconi
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