Label Type
Artist CommentaryLabel
"A glacier is a climate indicator. It is also the memory of the planet and life on Earth” (from the Mer de Glace Visitors Center).
In the summer of 1977, I walked on the incredibly beautiful glacier, La Mer de Glace (Sea of Ice) in Chamonix, France. When I returned the summer of 2004, I was shocked by how little was left of it. It had shrunk to a muddy mess since my first visit. There was very little beauty left to see. I have been thinking a lot about Climate Change and our responsibility to the life of our planet this past year. I feel Mother Earth is getting even, with this pandemic, for all of humanity's abuses. This reduction woodcut print is a memorial to La Mer de Glace, as I remember it, from the black & white photo I took on my first visit.
This reduction woodcut bleed print was printed from one piece of ¼” plywood in eight runs through the printing press. I also printed “pochoir” using mylar stencils for most runs. I applied blended (split fount) rolls of transparent ink with several brayers to the printing matrix. I printed on Japanese Kozo paper with oil based relief inks. You may view each run for this print on my website under “How I Print”.Label Type
Technique or ProcessLabel
Reduction woodcut print with "pochoir."
Oil based relief ink on handmade Japanese kozo paper.