Klint / CUT, Experimental Print Club Edition #9

Spent a good day yesterday working on the 9th edition for my Experimental Print Club. I’ve been making 3 or 4 smaller ephemeral works on paper each year for the club, as a kind of loosening up idea, with the intention of trying out new ideas that may feedback into my main practice, whilst simultaneously creating some hopefully quite collectable smaller works that go out to club members in the post. It’s a nice concept that coerces me to make some new smaller works each year.

For edition #9 I’ve been experimenting with the idea of cutting up fragments of a colour proof I made for my Klint series, which made me wonder if there was something extra there to explore. To date the new edition has taken the form of a reworked cut and paste, or remixed, edit of two of the Klint drawings, alongside blocks of flat test colours, and additionally, as I’ve cut the pieces up, I’ve inserted small fragments of metallic foils, which kind of animate the work, in so far as that they catch the eye as the light shifts across them, and in so doing accentuate the beauty of the flat pigment areas.

It’s an exploration into the digital vs the analogue and combines the cutting of each, both on the system, and on the workbench. The two types of cut of course accentuate the tension between the haptic and the digitally made, in a very overt way. The whole is then going to be adhered to a debossed sheet of locally sourced Somerset paper.

If you’d like to know more about the Print Club, it’s online here - https://chuckelliott.com/experimental-print-club-list-01