day 5 drawing 5 troika 27

Processing image files is very hard for me — physically (sitting there), sometimes technically ("why isn't this working?!?"), and emotionally (a roller coaster ride). I've always done my own prints — in this case, to convert the drawings into prints, I took high resolution scans, spent hours or days editing in Photoshop, and ran too many test prints to admit. I'm very particular and it's always a question, “does this meet what I set out to express and make?” Of course, sometimes there are welcomed surprises and I go from there. But . . . man.

That initial editing and test printing, I would delegate out in a heartbeat — it is brutal! And with every print, one has to accept and expand, embody in a way, that each iteration is an offset of the work, slightly or somewhat different from the moment of creation. And every decision we make, aesthetically and technically, and every omitted decision, is captured in the final product. It's a great argument for creating a team, LOL — to have a shared experience and objective with others — because it's hard to talk with people outside the process about why you're upset, "Yes, I need a drink! The light areas and dark areas aren't reading here and then there and I've printed this SEVEN times!!" Mmhmm, that’s a nebulous, shape-shifting angst.

day 5, drawing 5: Troika 27, 2/2019, image 14 ½” x 10 ¼”, archival print on a Hahnemuhle photo rag 19” x 13” sheet, edition of 10, signed, stamped, chopped, and numbered.

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