Train journeys are ideal for playing. With i-stop motion, with digital photos in photoshop. I had a happy 3 hours this afternoon from Paddington to Exeter. I was excited the find the ‘print as flip book’ option in i-stop motion. Now that gives me ideas.
Back to the point of this post.
I’m working through ideas for a book arts project I’m involved in. Artists are being called on to create 3 books in response to the bombing of Al Mutanabbi street in Bagdad March 2007. Al Mutanabbi street is the cultural and literary hub of Baghdad, and of Iraq and has been so since the 9th C or so. A San Francisco bookstore owner Beau Beausoleil started the Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition, a growing group of local writers, artists, poets, and printers, who create awareness about the bombing of Al-Mutanabbi Street through print. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=85909663901#!/group.php?gid=85909663901&v=wall
These are digitally created using photographs I took originally to create an animation called ‘The house that Jack built’ that I haven’t the patience for right now. Using cut offs of lino I was interested to use them in printmaking also.
Possibly I’ll now use these images in traditional print, possibly photoetch. Possibly I’ll leave them as they are.
