Above: Silk Trail 307; below: Silk Trail 402
Both 2012, unique digital prints, paper size 11 x 8.5 inches
Both 2012, unique digital prints, paper size 11 x 8.5 inches
These are the newest digital prints from a series I started a couple of years ago. As I was printing images of my paintings, an encaustic-on-panel series called Silk Road, the printer cartridge started running out of ink. What resulted was a print that had little resemblance to the painting but was a new and, I thought, beautiful image all its own. I immediately began to manipulate the resulting images by reprinting and overprinting. A new series came into being: Silk Trail. You can read about its origin here.
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As I approach my 400th print, I have learned a lot about how to make the printer and those last drops of ink do what I want them to do. Still, there's the element of surprise that keep me up until 4:00 a.m. feeding sheets of paper into the printer and holding my breath to see what comes out.
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All work here is from 2012. Each is a unique digital print on archival Epson paper, the image within an 11 x 8.5 sheet.
Silk Trail 303
Silk Trail 315
Silk Trail 318
Silk Trail 333
Silk Trail 334
Silk Trail 359
Silk Trail 367
Silk Trail 368
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These and other prints from the series are available at:
