The Artist Speaks about her work:
Exploring the elusive theme of time requires a focus on practical as well as imaginative ruminations. How does one experience and perceive time? St. Augustine concluded that time is in the mind - the past and the future make up "time memory." We are measuring the present in relationship and duration to the past and possible future.
This series of work employs antique sundials to suggest measurement or passage of time and circular images to position the artist in that time memory. The dialogue is suggested by the individual titles given to each piece. When viewed as a total image, each work becomes part of the artist’s personal “Book of Hours” or a visual text for spiritual reflection and prayer.
Many of the works in this series are the same size and in tandem creates a revealing calendar of the artist’s journey through life and work. Solar plate etchings are appropriately created by using ultra violet light to penetrate and harden unworked areas of the photo-polymer plate. The artist's images are created through drawings, collages and digital manipulations which are then copied onto transparencies and exposed to the plate’s surface. An environmentally safe water wash out creates the etched indentations on the surface of he plate after exposure. As a final step, the plate is completely exposed to ultra violet light to harden its entire surface.
The plate is traditionally inked using intaglio or relief methods and printed through a large flat bed etching press under pressure onto dampened paper. Manipulations of the ink on the surface through relief rolling, chine colle, wiping a la poupe and hand coloring with watercolor and colored pencils are all employed to varying degrees. Additional techniques such as collagraph, multiple plate printing and collage layering are sometimes added to enlarge the prints architecture.
Dorothy Cochran
Send the Artist a Message !
Send the Artist a Message !
