Printing sessions

I am a printmaker who does not own a press. For years I have created prints using alternative printing methods, until my recent residency at the Constellation Stdios, in Lincoln, NE.
Having a press all to myself 24/7 was like falling in love again to a long lost lover. Now I am totally hooked to printing, the ink preparation, the smell, the paper, the trans I get while I am composing my images. I never use sketchbooks. Before the printing session I gather my carved blocks, my tools, the ink, the paper and I compose the images upon the whim of the day. I love the double excitement of pulling a print that I have put together in an almost automatic unpremeditated way. 

Happy new vessels

Let us toast the new year with colorful wood cuts, vessels printed on Japanese Awagami paper, fruit of my residency in Constellation Studios in Nebraska .

May 2019 be a year full of inner light, warmth, creativity and adventure that nourish the soul. 

Pressing Matters

I am getting ready for a week long residency at Karen Kunc’s Constellation Studios in Nebraska. After a long pause of a couple of years I have not been doing printmaking, I am going to start developing my project under the name “Ikat DNA”. 
I am going to create a hybrid between photography and printmaking, exploring the visual vocabulary of Uzbek Ikat textiles and the faces of Uzbekistan’s future. 
My passion for Ikat textiles brought me to the ancient cities on the Silk Road. Khiva, Bukhara, Samarkand, Tashkent. I have spent three weeks touring the landlocked Central Asian Country, crossing deserts, the steppes, visiting fabulous cities and monuments and taking pictures of children.