I have been sketching, writing, and researching and decided that block printing will be the medium I work with for our library project. What haunts me most about the photos from Seattle's regrade are the huge holes and people peering into them - as if they are staring into an unknown future. I like the thought that they could not imagine the massive hills gone, and now it is hard for us modern Seattelites to imagine them there in the first place.
Therefore, I am exaggerating the excavation in my images to have the holes seem endless. Here are a few sketches that I created from looking at original images from the Denny regrade taken in 1908.
The next step will be to carve the images in a manner that conveys depth. To help me with this I started researching wood and linoleum block printing techniques and found these gems.
High Tide Detritus : Reduction color linocut 2008 Sherrie York (American)
Ocean Surface Woodcut 1992 Vija Celmins (American, born Latvia, 1938)
Essence Mulberry Helen Frankenthaler (American, born 1928)
The next step will be to carve the images in a manner that conveys depth. To help me with this I started researching wood and linoleum block printing techniques and found these gems.
High Tide Detritus : Reduction color linocut 2008 Sherrie York (American)
Ocean Surface Woodcut 1992 Vija Celmins (American, born Latvia, 1938)
Essence Mulberry Helen Frankenthaler (American, born 1928)
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