Day 33 of Year 2
Titles are the worst. 😜 It's hard to switch your brain from making images to defining them through words. I reserve the right to re-title any monotype in this series in the future!
Experimentation is tonight's theme. The orange and blue are ghost ink from last night's print. I rolled them over with white. The old white ink was extremely opaque and would have yielded very different results. This is too subtle for my tastes, the birds around the orange are just barely noticeable. The second layer, the face, is also more muted than I had hoped. But, part of this project is posting the successes, failures and experiments, so I am. I miss my old ink though. It was a different kind of partner, one that encouraged abandon and experimentation. Unfortunately though, it had some technical issues that became problematic. The newer ink demands carefulness and is more intellectual to work with. I am going to start experimenting with mixing the two. The new ink is better for color and doesn't have the same technical issues. Where there is a will, there is a way and I will find that way! 🙂
You and Art
By William Stafford
Your exact errors make a music
that nobody hears.
Your straying feet find the great dance,
walking alone.
And you live on a world where stumbling
always leads home.
Year after year fits over your face—
when there was youth, your talent
was youth;
later, you find your way by touch
where moss redeems the stone;
and you discover where music begins
before it makes any sound,
far in the mountains where canyons go
still as the always-falling, ever-new flakes of snow.