New Stuff I'm Looking At

Okay, so, I've switched gears a bit. The big switch was initiated by a conversation with Endi and Danielle a few weeks ago. I'd been really suck on "the void" and figuring out what it meant and how it was working in the images that I had made. Well, during our critique, Endi and Danielle suggested I drop "the void" and focus on some other conceptual considerations including the idea of my projection as a wearable. Endi also suggested I look at the work of a few German expressionists, saying my aesthetic was very reminiscent of the harsh, brooding style that coined the genre of prints.

o here are a few I was looking at by Kathe Kollwiz:

And Ernst Ludwig Kirchner:

And Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

I was really struck and inspired by the intense line quality and heavy feeling all of the pieces exude. I could definitely see where Endi was coming from when he told me to check out their work. I did another plate (an etching on plastic this time) and tried to push this heavy handed/weathered/harsh aesthetic a little further.