Hand printed & hand carved linoprint. Occult/Sci-fi inspired work about exobiology.

  • Ashyr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    Can you explain all the various representations? There’s a few I recognize, a few I can guess at and still more that I don’t even know where to start.

    • Julien Catanese@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      6·
      6 months ago

      it is a mixture of abstract elements with occult/sci-fi connotations and scientific diagrams or more figurative or symbolic elements. there are elements relating to cosmology, astronomy, topography/geology. the element carbon, its simplified atomic model. a molecule of “chnops” the building blocks of life, a representation of bacterial life and various abstract elements. everything arranged in such a way as to have a homogeneous and graphically coherent egnimatic whole.

    • Julien Catanese@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      4·
      6 months ago

      thanks ! I do the research using drawings in a notebook, but they are more sketches of elements, of symbols. I create the composition in vector on Adobe Illustrator then using a transfert medium from liquitex , I transfer my printed composition onto my linoleum plate. I then engrave my plate manually. approximately 90 percent of the plaque is hollowed out.

  • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    6 months ago

    That is fantastic detail; at first glance I thought you’d laser cut it. Incredibly precise. It must have been very meditative to do the carving by hand.

    Question: do you have a press, or is this hand-rubbed as well? Either way, great work.

  • ink@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    Awesome! I’ve always wanted to do linocuts. Is this a metallic ink? It looks great! :)