19/03/2007

the age of print

i have to say, i am incredibly in love with printmaking at the moment, especially screen printing. it's very bizarre, because as an art student all those years ago i hated the idea of printmaking. i think it was mostly because all the printing people were these anally retentive types who were so obsessed with everything being clean and aligned etc etc. i'm finding more and more printmakers who use the process much more like painting though, and this excites me. do you think that tension between the freedom of painting and the mechanical repeatability of printing is possibly what we are after? i mean, i know we've both discussed a desire to create the tension between handmade and mechanically mass produced - i'm just thinking more and more that printing, especially if we push beyond traditional boundaries with it, is exactly that.


and we already have a history of doing it.



image by programmable press

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