White Sands Collaboration Woodcut Print
Artists (left to right): Henry Morales, Ellie Weadock, Virgil Velasco
Sponsor and art agitator: Karl Whitaker
The process:
This print was generated from three woodcut carvings on April 13, 2024, at a printing workshop event conducted by Lyell Castonguay of Big Ink (bigink.org). During the workshop weekend, prints from a dozen artists or teams of artists were collaboratively printed on the Big Ink traveling press.
A summary of the weekend’s printing, and activities leading to it can be found here:
The image concept:
It was during 2023 that Karl Whitaker suggested to a small group of printmakers that we embark on a print exhibition focusing on the history of New Mexico.
In 2021, national attention in the scientific community descended on White Sands when fossilized human trackways were radiocarbon dated to be made between 21,000 – 23,000 years ago. This discovery has challenged the long-established theory that the Clovis people were the first to set foot in the Americas. A few years later, in 2023, the film “Oppenheimer” brought popular national attention to the history of the detonation of the first atomic bomb, also in White Sands, NM.
These events enabled us to think about White Sands in a cross-section of sorts, both through place and time. We can see in one image the footprints, fossils and beings of ancient times alongside modern-age creations, beings and natural phenomena, as envisioned by three colleague artists.
By conceptualizing our past, we can understand the brevity of our own existence while holding hope that modern human society will learn from the past with a focus on the future.
- Ellie wrote the artists' statement above
- tinyurl.com/WhiteSandsBigPrint
Eric thought that we needed "mirrored" tiles to continuously tile. I don't think that is true. However I think that we can tile with both regular and "mirrored" tiles of the same shape -- so I flipped the file horizontally and laser cut some "mirrored" linoleum tiles to add/complicate the pattern:
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