I’m enjoying the combinations of abstractions and amalgamations here from different sources. All the sources have been made by my efforts of course. The fine text you see distributed across this picture in orderly fashions and directions, for example, comes from a layer I selected, copied, and pasted from Ghosts of Flower Bones.
I titled this piece Textual Sur Veil I suppose as an allusion to the surveillance, particularly of text, across the internet. Sur comes from Old French, which means “on, upon, over.” The slightly shrouded pink circle with circuit-like lines drawn in it I imagined for a moment to be like a bug placed in a Christmas tree. Perhaps it’s an ornament with surveillance capabilities.
I imagined a Christmas tree because of the brush-like foliage in the upper and lower parts of the picture. It looks like a curving stream of smoke is arising from a twig in the background thus adding to the notion of a tree. Perhaps it’s a match that was used to stoke a fire in the fireplace.
Anyhow, we are in the Spring season now, so writing about impressions of Christmas really is just adding to our recent memories from this last Winter. So these impressions that remind us of Christmas are being transformed subtly by the forces of nature found in Spring. The yellow-green background gives this sense of Spring. I blend the seasons of Spring and Christmas together in this image much like nature does as it knows not the divisions we humans superimpose on to it.
I decided to add a strip of white on the bottom of my images now to give you an idea of what your print will look like signed by me. I learned that prints need to be signed specifically in pencil in order to make them less vulnerable to fraud. It also provides a space on which you can see the number of your print when you purchase it so as to insure that it is a limited edition, and that it will retain its value. I also decided to start providing you with the information of the materials I used to create this image, both the traditional materials, and the digital printing materials. I round my labor around a generalized amount because each image varies in the amount of time it takes to produce it, from physical start to digital finish. There is definite labor and expenses involved in framing each print as well.
Title: Textual Sur Veil (version 1)
Source medium: Water-based, and alcohol-based ink, on paper collage and paper adhered with diluted wood glue
Print medium: Hewlett Packard printer ink from Hewlett Packard DesignJet Z2100 printer on Hewlett Packard print paper
Dimensions of print: 23 inches by 23 inches
Number of limited edition prints: 25
Investment of print not framed: $80.00
Investment of print framed: $400.00 (shipping included)
Contact me: artofevan@hotmail.com
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