altered...

neighborhoods

The last few weeks I've spent them in New York, away from the studio but never far from my MacBook... With camera in hand I explored neighborhoods under all sorts of weather conditions, in the winter light and in the majestic state of fresh fallen snow; later I reworked the images, transforming them into digital collages adding text, fragments of monotypes, and a definite dose of my present emotions and thoughts... 

This new work (for the time being) I call: "altered neighborhoods"...

with yesterday's news...

      ... today's collages

I must admit the title is a bit misleading; these works are results of much more than yesterday's news! Actually they are an amalgam of all sorts of stuff from many "yesterdays". There are creased papers, pressed leaves,  monotypes, photographs and all kinds of patterns -details from prints of some less than perfect sessions at the studio.  And then the words that almost by a steady whisper suggest the placement, the direcion the actual mood of the work.

These are samples from a virtual pile of collages and of possible beginnings of future ones...

east and west...

Here is a new structure from a body of work I am developing, where printmaking practices from distant worlds are brought together in the same composition: Japanese paper stained through the orizomegami technique and Rives BFK paper  painted in a monotype printmaking application where inks have been separated and markings have been formed with a free hand spontaneous gesturing movement. 

These materials carrying two diverse printmaking/painting processes, are brought in close proximity, in a "marriage" of two distinctivelly different entities and yet in what I see as a very peaceful and harmonious union.
(oops! I meant composition...)

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paper games!

playing with paper, passing time, concentrating on the grain, forgetting what and why, keep folding, pleating, the worktable's surface becomes a fantasy valley, the light brighter, the shadow stronger, and the imagination flying hight to unknown territories...
I still don't know why/what for, but I do love the result so far...