The Abundance

Despite what the voice in my head tells me, I've decided to soldier on with my Buffalo Abundance print. I worked on the aquatints on Friday and the plate looked really black. I'll have to do some burnishing, but that won't take that long. When I looked at a photo of the first proof I pulled I saw possibilites that I had not seen with the naked eye.

One change I'm going to make is the deletion of the barbed wire mono print portion. I'm going to save that for the Buffalo Nickel Duo ...

First proof of "The Abundance" ...

Buffalo Nickel

The voice in my head says, shit can the Abundance image. Flip the plate and etch the other side with a round buffalo nickel image. So I did a google image search for the buffalo nickel, and look at what's on the other side. The original people image.  A companion plate.

On Thursday I did a test of my barbed wire idea. The wire was a little too thick and put holes in my printing paper. I asked Gina if I could use some of her jewelry wire. She was like, of course you can.

So I'll use the barbed wire monoprint technique on top of both the buffalo image and the original people image.

Brilliant.

Abundance - Mock up of new 5"x7" plate

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

3:50 PM

I found a piece of poetry: The dull, black eyes of the empty house will stare at the highway awaiting their return. - Lenora Castillo

From Wikipedia: To Native Americans, the Bison or American Buffalo was a symbol of sacred life and abundance. This importance and symbolism was created from legend: One summer a long time ago, the seven sacred council fires of the Lakota Sioux came together and camped. ... She taught the Lakota people the mysteries of the earth.

A passage from a book: A strong breeze ripped through Nakkole's hair, sweeping it over her shoulder and across her eyes. The small puddle near their feet rippled in the wind. Abunda turned slightly and beckoned to something in the forest. Nakkole's eldest sister, Timpani, stepped through the trees...

Destiny's Warrior

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=110120687X

Heather Waters - 2007 - ‎Fiction

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New Etching w/ Botanical Monoprint

"There is a place that I know, both in the future and in the past. There is a tension between what was, what is and what will be.

What do I want to say with my prints?

Lament the human, the marks we make on the world. Value the land, the sea, the modest, the peculiar, the common: what is made out of thoughtfulness. Admire what people have built for themselves. Listen for the prophecy of the prairie, remnants of a conversation, the sound of rust, the silence between the waves.”

David Moskow, Belleville, Art on the Square, Etching, Botanical Monoprint, Moskow Fine Arts, tension, what was, what is, what will be, prints, Lament the human, the marks,the world,the land, the sea, the modest, the peculiar, the common, thoughtfulness, Listen, prophecy of the prairie, remnants of a conversation, the sound of rust, the silence between the waves.”