Mx.D.P

I am knackered after the Interim Show and Low-Res.

However, I am back at it… we are Fisting the Oil Companies next, and the gel plate meditation is perfect for thinking space…

I am using the Trans flag colours of Pink for gurrls, powder Blue for boys and white for those… well, me, those in the middle…

It was a refreshing change from the non-binary colours. I’m looking at written art, mirror writing…. I am using the environmentally devious Posca pens… I am considering how I will address their nature when they are used up!

We are on Hogarth in William Gaunts A Concise History of English Painting. Gaunts writing is mirroring my own narrative of social discourse.

I am using a larger plate and layering the pages on to fracture the writing…

I am examining different ways to write Transmission; just as each trans-person has their unique journey and experience, it is not a linear process.

I alternate the direction, placement and colours of the words to form a sequence on the plate. I am not cleaning the plate in between prints, leaving a residue of experience.

I also wanted to have colour plates of my own… so it was time to fist… for those of you not familiar with fisting, this is the ‘silent duck.’

I am using 80gsm eco-recycled copy paper. I achieved some great texture using recycled blue paint and the new fluorescent pink I bought from the CSM art shop. The black metallic paint is the same one used in the Hu-Cow paintings. The black metallic oil pastel will melt in the laminator, with unknown consequences, much like any transition process.

I varnished between layers with a high gloss varnish and applied more paint with a pallet knife. The silent duck was perfectly captured on the gel plate, including my long nails; owww, not recommended for fisting!

I might do a process video… for the painting don’t get carried away…