Silkscreening
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I used a silkscreen this year, which is my usual method. I do not attempt to make
all the cards identical--there are about a dozen variations: Lion-colored moves
from tan to gold,and elephant-colored moves from gray to silver over the pile of
paper stock, which itself is not uniform. I use lightweight for airmail, and
different colors & textures. Furthermore I rubber-cemented assorted rainbows to
the paper before printing. As in a baroque musical piece, space for
improvisation is built-in. This way I do not get bored during the hours of
printing. Click to see the cards en masse , the
envelopes drying, or a single
finished product
The problem I set myself is to summarize our year, like a Christmas newsletter,
but graphically.. In addition there has to be a touch of the seasonal. And I
try to experiment with something I've never done before. This year the something
I've never done before is a popup card.
Key:
Herman went to Africa in '95...We both went to Peru
...We made a pilgrimage with our cousins to Rainbow Beach in Chicago
(Then there was Dr. Cousins, & my other medical incident, a torn ligament on
Mt. Wachusett--Looks a lot like Kilaminjaro, doesn't it?)...Herman challenged our
HMO too, with his botfly bites, & HCHP was equal to the task with a tropical
medicine expert who photographed Herman's leg & called his colleagues in to have
a look...Herman added four birds to his Massachusetts list: mountain bluebird,
yellow rail & hermit warbler. In addition he got two North American life birds:
band-tailed gull & lapwing...PLUS he got a life MA mammal: black bear...Herman's
MA bird list for '95 topped 300...The shark reminds Herman of all the pelagic
trips he took, now that he gets a discount, & me of that "GUMS!" poster in my
former dentist's office..We had white-fronted antbirds,(as well as other antbird
species), at an antswarm, which Ellie tells us is a rare treat...The Humboldt
penguin was a life bird for Ellie, Stauffer, Herman & me...I picked our friend
G.K. up in Hartford where we saw the carousel landmark...I went to a 4-day
Go workshop where I slept in a loft cleverly built above another sleeping
compartment hidden behind a bookcase...Ezra came at Easter & forgot his sleeping
bag twice...Petra came Nov.19 to do a rotation at the Joslin Clinic...It fit
neatly into the year's iconography that the Joslin's logo is a circle with a "J"
inside it...We finally got our fold-down table
(Hint:"[]>" symbol inside the matchbox) installed on the porch...Herman gave me
a "memory-mate" which I have applied to birdsong...We got a gray Suzuki
Sidekick...Teddy got an elephant puppet from the
shop at Walden Pond for her birthday the great weekend I spent in Brooklyn....Our
garage acquired a faux-stall look...Our Web pages
have gotten hits from 35 countries and counting...The Illini "I" is a salute to
the State of Illinois which coughed up my mother's unclaimed assets at last in
'95. (When this sort of thing--losing one's own money & then getting it back
after a huge hassle--happened in my mother's lifetime, she saw it as a "windfall"
which she happily gave to charity)...There are also 4 funerals & a wedding
commemorated on this card.
Enough exposition.
to see images of our 1995 card-creation process..
Go to:
Herman's Home Page
The Art Gallery
Cards 1975-1986
Cards 1987-1995
Cards 1996-2005
Cards 2006-2013
Contact Sheet of the whole card collection
Exhibition of the cards At Genessee Community College in 2001
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