I did a test print of the block I’m carving. I usually do a couple runs extra at the end to get the ink off the block, which is where these spectral images come from. In a strange way, I think I like these fading, forgotten marks better than the actual print. But one more block to go, the background color, then it’s time for a print run.
I think winter is over? Hopefully? It’s been a mild one, an easier one. It’s been a relief as I started the year feeling like I’d been tossed up on shore, full of seaweed and ocean. I think my land legs are coming back, slowly.
Other things on the horizon:
This mash up of traditional Chinese music and banjo music is oh my, my. My 4th great-grandfather helped run an illegal distillery in Kentucky in the 1800’s, so a weakness for Appalachian folk music is embedded in my DNA.
I’m rereading Under the Sun of Satan. Translated works usually fall flat for me, but this one still sings in English. It’s not an easy read, brutal and harsh at times, but it’s been worth the reintroduction.
This stop motion/puppet production is in my to watch queue.