Unless It's Alice
Alice (post-Wonderland) finds herself in a mundane world again, devoid of hookah-smoking caterpillars and mad tea parties, and no Jabberwocky in sight. She has fallen into a depression of sorts - she's still precocious Alice, but it seems as though the color and excitement has left her. She finally finds her spirit again in a young man who seems full of everything she lost in Wonderland, but it turns out that even he was a lie. After he uses her and leaves, she curls up in nothing but her socks and mourns for the death of Wonderland and everything she's lost. She's consumed by despair, and Wonderland fades even further from her grasp.
The images are created using stone lithography. The stone is treated to receive oily substances, an image is transfered to the surface using lithographic crayons and subsequently etched into the stone using acid. Then the surface is buffed and primed, such that the only oil-receptive parts of the stone are where the image lies, and then is inked and printed on a lithographic press. This is one of my favorite printmaking techniques, because it requires physical effort to produce an image, and is the technique that replicates graphite drawings most faithfully.
Alice of Spades
Alice
Technicolor Alice
The color was produced using a tone roll, meaning the color was spread in this gradient on the roller and passed over the image.
The Sun Also Rises
The title is in reference to Hemingway's novel of the same title. Though my art and his novel have little in common regarding content, each piece is about love, death, and renewal.
The red circle above her head is applied using chine colle. Thin paper is coated with powdered rice paste and sent through the press during printing. The paste reacts with the wet stone surface and adheres to the printed paper.
Captivate Me
