Blast From the Past
Saturday, May 27th, 2006
I was flipping through one of my portfolios a little while ago, looking for older pieces, mostly school assignments, that I could throw out. Then I thought maybe it would be fun to take some of the worst (or more interesting) pieces and post them here in an occasional series. Now, I’ll have to really dig to find anything older than my freshman year of high school, but I’ll do my best to find a few pieces that predate that.
This piece I’ve posted here is actually from the first semester of my sophomore year of high school (2002), from a one-semester intro to printmaking class that I took. (The second semester was devoted to 3D arts.) I actually did produce a few things worth keeping around in that class, but most of it was forgettable. This one here, which I apparently titled “Cheesefest”, is one of the pieces that inspired my art teacher to say “Printmaking just isn’t your strength, is it?” Heh. I think this was a “found-object print” in which we mostly just smeared some ink on random stuff and stamped it on construction paper. I appear to have used string, lace, and who knows what for the cheesy shapes (it wasn’t actual cheese, of that much I am sure).
I never did really get the hang of abstraction.
