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We had committed to attend a good friends wedding in Maine. Celebrants came from as far as California, long time friends from New York and many from Texas. We converged on a small ocean side town to share this bond even though ours was ending. The picturesque landscape was lovely. The salt laden air mingled with fresh lobster and clams, local wine and spirits flowed around the bouquet table, while young servants scurried about refilling fluted glasses in anticipation of the next tease or toast. I silently drifted into a more melancholy but realistic world, that of my table. Were once like spoons in warm embrace we now sit across lawyers with knives and forks.
The linocut Last Passage to Deer Island was completed in 2004 two years since the trip to Maine. While preparing to transfer the image to the block I unintentionally shifted the bottom section. I usually carve from top to bottom, small sections no bigger than 2 by 2 inches. Once starting I use the original source as a guide and carve what I see . Its important to follow through and not change in mid stream or you will loose your original intension. I finished the print and put it in my print files. It is only now that I am able to present it to the public eye. I studied it and realized what the Knight Errant had left me . What he reveled was a dynamic composition, filled with controlled emotion. Memories can be like silk flowing in smoky scrolling swirls or appear as shatter shards of a once prized vessel. I carved with that in mind attacking the block from all angles. The composition is dominated with diagonal movement. The viewer is led from bottom left sweeping up through the center and resting left of the main tree, then off to the refuge of sky. Relief printing is a sculpted not drawn medium, its digging, plowing ,ripping away the black surface reveling the light. This print is full of stops and starts, points and counter points. Like life the journey to where I am, could not happen, if it were not for the events of the past. Now in this late cycle of life I am very happy.
I wish to acknowledge the poet laureate Billy Collins for the poem Divorce.
Materials used:
Daniel Smith Traditional Black Relief Ink on Zerkall Book Smooth Cream over Somerset Satin White 250gm
Tags:
#nature #memories #table #linocut #ephemeral #relief print #dynamic composition #weddin gift #banquet #celebrentsLAST PASSAGE TO DEER ISLAND (2004) Linocut
by David Conn
£295.84
- Linocut on Paper
- From a limited edition of 50
- Size: 38.1 x 55.88 x 2.54cm (unframed) / 17.78 x 30.48cm (actual image size)
- Signed and numbered on the front
- Style: Expressive and gestural
- Subject: Landscapes, sea and sky
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Artwork description
We had committed to attend a good friends wedding in Maine. Celebrants came from as far as California, long time friends from New York and many from Texas. We converged on a small ocean side town to share this bond even though ours was ending. The picturesque landscape was lovely. The salt laden air mingled with fresh lobster and clams, local wine and spirits flowed around the bouquet table, while young servants scurried about refilling fluted glasses in anticipation of the next tease or toast. I silently drifted into a more melancholy but realistic world, that of my table. Were once like spoons in warm embrace we now sit across lawyers with knives and forks.
The linocut Last Passage to Deer Island was completed in 2004 two years since the trip to Maine. While preparing to transfer the image to the block I unintentionally shifted the bottom section. I usually carve from top to bottom, small sections no bigger than 2 by 2 inches. Once starting I use the original source as a guide and carve what I see . Its important to follow through and not change in mid stream or you will loose your original intension. I finished the print and put it in my print files. It is only now that I am able to present it to the public eye. I studied it and realized what the Knight Errant had left me . What he reveled was a dynamic composition, filled with controlled emotion. Memories can be like silk flowing in smoky scrolling swirls or appear as shatter shards of a once prized vessel. I carved with that in mind attacking the block from all angles. The composition is dominated with diagonal movement. The viewer is led from bottom left sweeping up through the center and resting left of the main tree, then off to the refuge of sky. Relief printing is a sculpted not drawn medium, its digging, plowing ,ripping away the black surface reveling the light. This print is full of stops and starts, points and counter points. Like life the journey to where I am, could not happen, if it were not for the events of the past. Now in this late cycle of life I am very happy.
I wish to acknowledge the poet laureate Billy Collins for the poem Divorce.
Materials used:
Daniel Smith Traditional Black Relief Ink on Zerkall Book Smooth Cream over Somerset Satin White 250gm
Tags:
#nature #memories #table #linocut #ephemeral #relief print #dynamic composition #weddin gift #banquet #celebrents
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