I’ve been cutting some small experimental lino blocks to try out different ideas for a new piece of artwork based on the Welsh Miner’s Wives in the Miner’s Strikes in the 1980s. I cut one based on a newspaper photograph and one featuring text from a song sung by women on the picket lines. I tried printing them together and I really like the result. It’s archaic, reminds me of the early days of printing in Europe when images and texts for books were carved into wooden blocks, before the invention of moveable typeface.
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