I don’t know what I made, or why I made it. But I like it.
I wanted to test the print screens at work, so I knocked up a quick stencil. Impromptu - I went with an impulse and a sense, I briefly saw this in my head. Cutting the stencil freely it took no more than 10 mins to make. (Using newsprint paper as the stencil)
Again in a rush due to other commitments - I pulled a quick print preloading the screen and pulling 2 passes.
The above is the first print. I was kinda pleased and surprised. Again I worked quick and unselfconsciously as it was just a test. But I can tell Iike the result… I photographed it and have been returning looking at it from time to time.
Again - It this thing that I need, to give myself permission to make work easily- not every worry piece of art hs to be laboured.
It’s inspired me - I want to use the stencil and make 2 colour prints of the black, grey, amber and the yellow that follows me. Also I had thought to make a print of the stairs, reduced to stark blocks of tone. A translation. I make a test in Illustrator - trace over the photo but dislike the literal iteration, it needs to evolve and be an interpretation. I’ll approach it again with simpler more intuitive making.
I also worry as this os quiet a departure form what I have been doing, but somehow I need to make it, get it out of my head.
