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?
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.
Each work in the series is the same size and in tandem create a daily calendar of the artist’s journey through
life.
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 on mylar and exposed to the plate’s surface. A water wash out creates the etched
indentations on the surface 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. The
number in the left hand margin indicates the edition number of each work.
Other printmaking techniques which have been used
in this 2006 series are collagraph, pronto plate
lithography and monoprinting.
Dorothy Cochran, 2006
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