Saturday, September 6, 2014

Eric's entry in Julie's CONNECTIONS

Thanks, Julie!
string goes in, string goes out....
The theme of "Connections"... it made me think back to some old zinc letterpress blocks from a book about Norwegian cross-stitch patterns from the late 1800's (don't ask me how I got the blocks, but I am glad to have them!)

I printed them on some thin pine veneer that I bought in Kyoto, Japan back in 2004 (it was sold in a restaurant supply store, intended to be used to wrap up/ deliver sushi rolls: imagine receiving sushi wrapped in wood, it's exquisitely beautiful!)

The connection then to the grommets and string is thus a bit of a non sequitur... I was just thinking about what the illustrations depicted, then trying to play off Julie's initial stippling on the cover of the book, playing with a bit more physical materiality/ tactility. What in the heck is that sculptural piece in the bottom of the box, which is lovely, made out of: is it plaster? paper pulp? I was stoked to see Gail's inclusion of some 3-D bits....

Keep it going, Rika!

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