Perenial Pleasures Rorschach Landscape

July 21, 2010

2 Monotypes

5"x14 1/4"

A couple of years back I made a series of prints exploring the duality of the landscape, but they were printed on separate pieces of paper. Over the years I have become increasingly interested in the process of making reversals of an image for printing and how it helps me to reflect on the yin and yang of the natural world. On one hand there is the pastoral beauty of the landscape that we all celebrate in one way of the other. Then there is the use and abuse that we as a society impose on the natural world. Printing the two separately made plates close together creates an eerie image that is somewhat disturbing and uncomfortable to look at. The fact that they are not exactly the same adds to this sense of mystery that I have been trying to evoke in my work for some time now.