The City, A Pile of Rubble

[cross-posted from moink.net]

During my brief time in the San Francisco Bay Area, I was slightly overwhelmed by the city I could once call my home. It isn’t quite that I haven’t been there in a long time. I do know how to move around the town… even got the bus system down. Sometime still felt foreign. It was the people. I returned home to find so few people that I still knew and still cared about. It was tragic, and isolating.

The only exception was when I shared a wireless access point with a new neighbor and we had a long, impromptu chat. “Annie”, sorry I didn’t call you back. I fled California for Tacoma, WA. Anyway, I did a linocut in response to what I was feeling about my life, and the city in general. I don’t have the energy to explain further, today.

Lac

In 1958 my grandparents were spending their summer with their children in rural Idaho. The cabin they built on Lake Coeur d'Alene still stands today, and the families of their three children continue to use the cabin to this day! Early in July, 2008, I decided to try my hand at woodblock printing. I drew a contour image of the view from a front window at the cabin, divided the shapes into three colors, and then transferred the color-coded shapes onto three pieces of wood.

I didn't have the appropriate tools to be carving wood... instead I used a flat-head screwdriver and some kitchen tools. It was a struggle, but considering this is my first wood block carving, and my first multicolor print, I'm fairly proud of the result.

The Senior Senator from Alaska

Hello, world. I'm Andrew, and have joined the Staticalaska blog. Don't ask me what that's going to mean, though. And speaking of Alaska, I hear Mr. "The Internet is a series of tubes" got pwned by the federal government. I wonder if they've finally decided he's no longer useful?

In other news, I have been hard at work in sunny California experimenting with printmaking, using rubber, linoleum and woods. In the spirit of the anti-G8 actions, resistance to war from within the military, as well as the upcoming RNC/DNC actions, included are some prints I did almost a month ago.