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“Tax the Rich”

Medium:

woodblock print projected onto wall & body with opaque projector, hand drawn text transfer onto skin, medium format film photograph developed by me, then printed digitally to get 10 x 30 “

This piece speaks about the need for higher taxation for the extremely rich. I chose this prompt because it was short and witty, and I felt that by putting these words onto my own body, it had a really interesting new meaning. Using tattoo transfer paper let me make it look similar to a tattoo, where it would live on my skin forever, illustrating the burden that society has put on my generation to somehow save the earth. The old English script gave the words an age, which I felt could be taken as “this has been said many times before” and we still haven’t listened, or it gives it a regal voice, perfectly suited to the overly wealthy.

“We were built to get along, we must learn to coexist”

Medium:

Oil paint, solvent less medium, sumi ink, relief ink, varsol, rice glue, typewriter.

I had some hiccups here, please forgive me.

I had a oil paint monoprint almost ready to print and when I went to print it it was too dry already. Then I did a new monoprint and tried another image I wanted to use and it was so wet that my paper tore, and I still needed to print my text on top but the papers to fragile to handle it now. I’m going to redo this monoprint so any suggestions are welcome because I have to start over anyways. I have text that will be pasted to the paper on either side of the monoprint. What I don’t have to show is my text that will be monoprinted onto the monoprint in handwritten script similar to Winstons. I’m thinking green

Meaning:

I felt that there was a voice missing in this project, since it’s about Albertas land specifically. Not being an Albertan myself, I wanted to get the opinion of someone who really owned the land we are on, so I asked a family friend, Elder Winston. Being a white immigrant, I didn’t feel like my voice was the one needing to be amplified, so I tried to respectfully use the voice of my Cree friend Winston. I was lucky enough to interview him and I got a ton of notes, as well as the text “we were built to get along” which really resonated with me. He spoke of a story where healers gathered for a weekend, and all the healers lined up with their arms outstretched in front of them, and the people being healed would stand under the arms of the healer they wanted to be blessed by, and the healer would hold your shoulders and do their thing. Man that was a run on sentence. I wanted to incorporate that gesture of touch and care into the message of this piece. I retyped the notes from my talk with him, and I decided to border the monoprint with it, especially because I don’t have a plate big enough to fill 30 inches

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Final (but not really) “we were built to get along, we must learn to coexist”

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Final (but not really) “we were built to get along, we must learn to coexist”

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I was hoping this would come across as healing, as well as the worlds future resting on our generations shoulders.

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Un-cropped scan of 4x5 film

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Printed Woodblock

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both of these prints are still in-progress (see digital images below for my plan!) both done with woodcut layers as a base with pochoir on top :)

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still have to give that gas station sign and car some colorrrr

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background green feels a little dark to me and not sure what color to do the inner side of the roof to help ground it without looking too heavy and pulling down the building. open to ideas for this!

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more close up

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excuses within

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Colours are better when I can pick them on photoshop and not mix them myself

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Used the least successful ground for the first go, not very legible

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Printing was cleaner but the ground is disappointing and the layers do not mesh

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independently printed layers edited together. What could be

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Missing the final element, I have held off on printing the other copies until it is done

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probably going to get grounds digitally printed to get something closer to this than my current resultd

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Volatility of the ground process left me with few good ones

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wood plate is falling apart

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Maxwell, Hannah_ Print 1 Close up_Line Work

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Maxwell, Hannah_ Print 2 Close up_ Wood Grain

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Maxwell, Hannah_ Print 2 Close up_ Words (1) 

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Maxwell, Hannah_ Print 2 Close up_ Words (2) 

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images below show the color mapping I initially planned for both prints. i'm thinking of leaving some woodgrain texture as-is in some areas?

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Word and Image Edited We're Sinking Cracked

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Due to technical errors, I managed to get the plate mostly finished, it will use dry point (view image) and mono print for the second layer to gain more depth with greyscale shading. The final prints will be finished over reading week.

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This print is finished! It’s a mixture of linocut and Digital printing

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Screen, lino, and monoprint

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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Apologies for uneven lighting!

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Reduction lino and screen

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oops sorry i wrote a lot

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this is the image I created digitally! let me know if yall prefer the black text, can always print over the grey

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Two done prints! they are supposed to be bleed prints so ignore the edges. Also camera kinda washed out the colours and contrast! the grey text in the first image is a lot more discernible in real life. Done with scanner, digital printing and screen for both.