PRINTMAKING
Love Spring 2007 (1 print)
concept: Create a screenprint based on a news story about a woman who rescues a lion, who, thankful for being saved, gives the woman a hug whenever he sees her.
execution: Screenprinted hand-drawn image onto paper.
Poppy Spring 2007 (4 prints)
concept: Work through my grandfather's identity at the beginning of his career in the U.S. Coast Guard starting in 1941 when he was seventeen years old by creating prints based on his letters and photographs.
execution:
A listing of groups my grandfather belonged to, printed in red ink on the Vandercook Universal SP60 letterpress.
Lithograph print of a line drawing based on a photograph taken by my grandfather from the deck of a ship.
Lithograph print of warped photocopy from the word "Don't" written by my grandfather in a letter to his younger sister.
Acetone transfer of an image from U.S. Coast Guard stationary: "Idle Gossip Sinks Ships".