The name of this piece is Piercing due to this lost souls intense and penetrating gaze and the symbol behind him. I believe that there is a faint unsettling feeling that creeps over the viewer as those somewhat eerie yet sorrowful eyes leer back. The sharp-tipped foreboding black triangle behind the face also subconsciously pierces the psyche of the onlooker. Triangles in general have a lot of connotations but more specifically to this work, it's a subtle reference to the badges that were forced upon inmates at Nazi concentration camps. Those that were deemed "asocial" got the black triangle. There are also three dimensional recessed lines or what I like to call "bars," that I hand pressed into the paper to also liken back to Nazi incarceration.
This piece is a four layer, three color, 9 edition limited series screen print. The triangle and face were printed with Eco-friendly, water based inks which I meticulously hand mix. The drips oozing from the dreaded triangle were hand painted with oil based lithograph ink. The drips are all slightly different and thus unique for each piece as can be seen in the 2nd image below. As mentioned earlier, this lightweight linter paper was hand pressed in certain areas with "bars" to give the work more physical depth and a deeper, more visceral story, which can be seen in the 3rd image below. I also intentionally "rough handled" this delicate fibrous cotton paper to give each piece more character.
Let me know what you think and there are editions of this for sale in my newly reopened lastdeviant Etsy shop. Check it out!
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| "Piercing" |
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| Drying of the triangle badges |
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| Recessed "bars" |
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| The ooze |
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| Face detail |
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| Full size |
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