EXQUISITE STEAMROLLER TESSELLATION Prints

Ethan laser cut some large "hat" linoleum shapes for me -- 20 inches across at the widest -- on April 16, 2025.  We will hand out these big linocuts for artists to carve in Tucson, El Paso and New Mexico -- then piece them together to make big steamroller prints during the Southwest Print Fiesta on October 11th, 2025 in Silver City:

20 Inches at the Widest --

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I cut off a half inch to make 35x36 inch sheets of linoleum

so that they would fit in Ethan's laser cutter

Morn Laser

70% power, 15 mm/sec speed

We laser cut each 35x36 inch piece of linoleum

into four "hat" shapes

in about ten minutes

Video of the laser cutter in action

Four 20 inch wide "hats"

out of a 35x35 inch square of linoleum

Thank you Ethan!!!!

 And a big Thank You to Brian too, for designing the tessellation pattern than we used to laser cut.

Ethan also laser cut small images into stamp rubber, and even pink pearl erasers, to make stamps:

UPDATE: I gave a big linoleum "hat" to ADAM BERMAN at UNM (University of New Mexico) on April 18th:

He recommended that we tape down the big puzzle tessellation tiles with woodworker's double sided tape, onto a board before inking them, to hold everything together to make a steamroller print:

Double sided woodworker's tape

I also left a big "hat" tile at Remarque Print Workshop on April 19, 2025:

Jessica Krichels accepts our big "hat" tile

in front of our exhibition at Remarque

IMAGINING DIFFERENT COMBINATIONS:

I was trying to imagine more fluid, truchet-like patterns:

Starting out with circles

that pass through two tiles

A more casual, but fluid pattern

with variations