Where to?

I don't know what to do next. The roundels series was well recieved. I know I have to work in a completely different way for the next series of works. Beyond that, however, what exactly to do, or indeed, what precisely to make work about is uncertain to me.

I'd like it to be something connected to the plates of drawings found illustrating natural histories, however.

Here is another detail from the Rooundels Series. The entire set can be found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/28509471@N05/

Details

Here are some details from the Roundels series.

I'm coming to an end of this series.

I could continue, but I think that would result in repetition, and the work becoming more and more decorative and mechanical, like wallpaper.

Some confident works

Here are some of the better ones- there have been some very weak prints too. Howver, I think the weak ones are somehow "necessary". Without them it wouldn't be possible to make the good ones.

Roundels

The first batch of new work is finally coming through. There's a fair Delaunay influence, also some pop art ideas. I want it to develop into something lighter than this.

Big Prints

This brings to a close the first really large series of prints I've done, at 60 x 85 cm.

The bigger size brings specific problems, as follows.

a. the plate is much more cumbersome, so it's harder to move it, and move round it
b. It's harder to make changes.
c. It takes much longer to change designs.
d. Mistakes in design and errors of technique are exaggerated.
e. It's much harder to place the paper on the plate to print.

The extra costs are actually ofset by the fact that one makes less work.

I'm mainly happy with the results. I like grandeur in art, I think it's a neglected quality, indeed it's a quality that post-modernism seems to millitate against.

Witchy, continued...

I'm going to start building a folio of photos which are suggestive of witchcraft.

The Island of Santa Catarina, where I live, has a history of witches and sorcery.