each sheet is 83 X 60 cm all hinged to concertina fold or exhibited as a single 480 cm length. Each sheet does include matched human/animal pairs but the arrangement is made to follow the jigsaw intersection suggested by the shape of the embossed plate edge. In other words the viewer has to sort out what goes with what. All these individual sheets are printed in editions of two or three as with most of the other sheets here.
The shaped plates average around 20 cm high and total close to 180 individual plates, almost all are copper. I will include a selection of about 120 arranged in a tight formation to interact with the large sheets of etchings but as yet haven’t worked out how to do this so it doesn’t look like a “hippie” copper curtain. I won’t be including the various shaped animal plates since they are visually too different to the vignette outline of the animal /human combos.
I have printed way too many variations which is good for editing but the show will have two parts. First part is made up of the playful combos above and the groupings of animals with and without the inclusion of actual animal etching which are also on shaped plates but cut so the edge of the plate becomes the contour of the image.
A little selection I’ve put up in our White Space in the printshop. This gives an idea of the range of scale. Most are on Hahnemuehle paper 300 gsm and the bigger sheets are 85 x 120 cm. Some are 90 by 120 from the long 20 metre rolls.
The images on the right wall above show the grouping of comparisons with the same animals in this case Birds, Lion and Pig. Sometimes isolated animal etchings are included but in other cases just the human/animal pairs. Below is a selection of dogs along with a selection of dogs with other single animals. The same goes for horses and several other popular animals.
