preliminaries for screen printing

With the envelope collages and using paper as a medium, I have began to utilise the surplus from my cuttings. The collaged envelope squares project is still on but is becoming more refined now. I have been working on the project for about ten months now and have a collection of different envelope designs and now finished collages of variable dimensions.

Some of the finished collages are framed in A5, A4 and A2 sized frames that I have bought from a variety of Poundshops and Charity Shops. The Poundshop frames are quite variable in quality of course, but I have managed to buy some good ones and they are cheap and transient anyway. The Charity Shop ones are spraypainted black as I have been told that this is the 'norm'.

So, with this work becoming more focused I have reverted to a concept that I started in my Art Foundation in 2009. I take stark and succinct sentences and use these sentences as a one-sentence poem (maybe too many sentences within one sentence here but..). What I used to do was to make a minimal collage and then use the sentence/phrase as a piece of interest/title of the piece. Now, I would like to make several screenprints/risographs at A3 sized and get them framed up.

The ones that are above where collected from several items of corporate literature that I think had some poetic providence. I think, as stated, that they are quite stark and succinct and only slightly joyful. Obviously, the ones shown here where made using the raw materials, the final ones will be printed somehow.


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