which is, sorta, a rough paraphrase, why (aside from sleep dep and distraction) I was unable to engage w/M's recent impressive array of charts and graphs on labour, unemployment, etc... seemd like it was all framed w/in that self-referential mental disneyland of money, industrialism, economic "efficiency" etc. -- it is not I think possible any longer to pretend that we can solve our collective problem(s) as a species by staying inside this frame... well not for me anyway. ymmv.
time for Truman to leave the show...
[apologies to M, that impressive presentation deserved a far more thoughtful and meditative response, but this is the best I can do for the nonce... we are all living -- and thinking -- inside Enterprise Village, and I want out...] The difference between theory and practise in practise ...
But of course the heart and soul of block printing imho is Japan... Hiroshige's Tokaido road print series, etc... ravishingly lovely, unimaginably meticulous craft in both carving and printing... there is a guy in my own (present) home town in California who's a great admirer of this tradition and did some very tasty block prints of the Monterey coast, umm google to the rescue:
Tom Killion block prints
these are all places I actually know and have seen from similar vantages w/my own eyes. nice work.
friend of mine does lino cuts (and occasionally scratchboard) as an alternative to wood blocks which are physically demanding to carve. all these media terrify me because I am not sure of my line, and certainty of line is required in subtractive media :-) no erasing and redrawing allowed! The difference between theory and practise in practise ...
Of course scratchboard is both subtractve and additive.
But my personal fave woodblock artist is that 'Old Man Man About Drawing'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hokusai-fuji7.png You can't be me, I'm taken
Mongaku by Ukiyo-e woodblock master Kuniyoshi. (I'm rather a fan.)
