Writing 5, Crit 1

I’ve been having the problem at every critique that my theme of “home” hasn’t been apparent in my pieces. I’ve loved going through the process of printmaking but I think the problem is that I’ve been thinking too much about the process and not enough about the content. I’ve been trying to think of better ways to convey my message and I think to convey comfort, I need to choose a method I am actually comfortable with to take my focus off the process and put it more on my piece. I’ve done digital work for as long as I can remember so for this critique I’m trying to utilize some of the pieces I’ve already made as a base and continue transforming them digitally to try to accomplish my goal.

As we’ve recently worked on turning linocuts into GIFs in class, I’m drawn to the idea of turning my previous pieces into living, “breathing” objects by layering and collaging my editions and other material together.

Writing 5, Crit 1

Crit 1, Writing 4

For this week’s critique I decided to take a break from etching and to give linocut a try. I am still sticking with my theme of comfort, but last critique Portico mentioned the idea of having a central image of a place I find comforting and picking out specific items from the scene to do pieces over so that my theme is more cohesive. I chose to redo the image of my boyfriend’s kitchen, this time in linocut and focusing on the the scene as a whole and several objects from there that I find comforting.

   
    
 

Crit 1, Writing 4