Here is a 12" x 12" Vinyl record album I created through screen printing techniques on Stonehenge.
The album I chose was 'The Carpenter' from The Avett Brothers. I chose this album for a number of reasons; the most important being, it was something I took comfort in and found when I was in a dark place after the passing of my best friend this past year. The album talks about the topics of dealing with death, dealing with new life (a child), marriage, and divorce. To me this seemed like it was talking about memories, the way we look back and reflect, so I made a surreal collage that is meant to represent those memories not necessarily being one person in particular, but the memory that surrounds them. The pop culture influence is also expressed through this, in the sense that we're almost all under constant observation through media and other things. The Front and back are each 4 color separations, a round halftone and the closest I could get to a CMYK. The inside was something I decided to do as extra to add to the composition, I did a 4 color separation and just used the black layer, printing it as a dark blue on top of the warm deep orange, having that contrast.
This is a light made of paper and inspired by Shepherd Fairey, Anila Quayyum Agah, and Dieter Rams.
This light was made through four separate layers of screen printing and assembled to create this interesting composition. The objective was to take objects from everyday life that are mundane and don't get much thought and create a phenomenology with the items (to see them before your eyes but obscured things that are taken for granted so they are muted by abstract observation. I picked a jacket, a power strip, and a variety of succulent plants, all things I see every day and don't think twice about. I broke the norm and decided to make my base layer bright green, one because it would look great with the light, and stand out. And two, it would invoke interest and cause people to look closer. My floral pattern was the succulents I have, as I don't pay attention; however, they're just another part of my day. We use energy daily and don't think about our consumption, the idea that it's 'taking over' and the jacket, which relates to me because I have a lot of jackets, that and in general I prefer to shop at thrift stores, it's better for the environment and almost a resolution in a sense to a part of my piece. The piece is supposed to draw in its audience, and then through these abstracted patterns and repetition of line and scale make them inquire as to why it's like this, why things are arranged in that way and think critically. I also managed to repurpose most of my colors from the colors people had left behind, bringing in that environmental theme even in its creation.
The Carpenter |12”x12” |Screen Print + Collage | 2018
This assignment was a project in the Book Arts Course. Mixed media, tape, Akua Ink, scanned collagraph, book board, book cloth, ribbon, Mohawk Superfine, print.
This was a very personal final project that related to my family and an area of my life that has been important. The reason for the garage is that's a unifying factor that my family has always had, my dad working in the garage, me and my brother helping, or doing something ourselves, and my mom just hanging out. It was made to favor the garage of my childhood home in a sense. I reused a lot of materials I had left over from other projects, (cut up Monotype, Collagraph, and excess book cloth and board. The way we would work in the garage. The major focal point is the castle nut, something designed to hold something together, to be strong (family bond) and the fact that it was a critical piece to the last project we worked on together. The book is a Coptic stitch that can lay flat, something that you would need for diagrams, notes, etc. The inside was filled with distorted designs of us, mixed with diagrams of our particular cars (pics to come). The 'garage' could shut, and the door could be pulled open or closed from the ribbon handle on the back. There is a LED light in the cabinet to simulate a real workstation, a map of where home is in the drawer.
