Palmarin Merges

Title: Golden I

Collagraph plates made of plaster, black washi, oil paint

25.25" x 38"

Using the same plaster collagraph plate that I used for the rice fields in Local Color. In Japan, the individual is not as important as the group. I wanted to highlight the ‘ i ‘ representing the Individual.

Local Color variation

October 1994

Multiple Collagraph plates, oil paint

Rives BFK 22" x 30"

Collagraph was my first introduction to printmaking and it has always held a special place in my heart.

Local Color (Gold)

October 1994

Multiple Collagraph plates, oil paint, gold leaf

Rives BFK 30" x 22"

River Notes

1995

Multiple Collagraph plates, oil paint

22" x 30"

These plates were inspired by a walk along a little river that ran through the town of Nagatsuta.

Uprising

May 1995

Multiple Collagraph plates, oil paint

11" x 30"

The ability to create a plate out of anything that can be run through a press is sometimes too much freedom.

Chanto Running Letters

October 1995

Collagraph, varnish drips, graphite, oil paint & oil crayon

34.5" x 22"

The CHANTO collagraphs were printed using 9 separate plates made out of a 4-ply chipboard.

Chanto Variations (part of a diptych)

December 1995

Multiple Collagraph plates, oil paint

25" x 38"

I played with the arrangement of the letters, moving them out of order, so they no longer spelled Chanto, playing more with the idea of imperfection and incorrectness but within the very rigid framework of a grid.

Local Color w/Gold Leaf

1995

Collagraph using crushed aluminum cans, oil paint & gold leaf

12" x 9"

With relief printmaking and collagraphs, anything goes!

shallow sleep

December 1995

9 Collagraph plates, oil paint on washi

24" x 38.25"

There’s a long rant in there about Japan. I added another layer of matboard that were cut more jaggedy and torn up as the background to represent how I was feeling about Japan at the time, which was frustrated and angry.

Statement »

Collagraph

All of these images were created while I was living in Yokohama, Japan from 1993 to 1996. While making these images, I went through stages of curiosity and infatuation with Japan in the Local Color series, to frustration and anger in the Chanto series. In these images, I express the excitement of living abroad and immersing myself in an alien culture.

A collagraph plate is made by collaging materials onto a plate/matrix and printing the intaglio and/or the relief of the plate. The Collagraph was the first Printmaking technique that I was introduced to and it will always hold a special place in my heart.