Narcissus on gray paper

$215 USD

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Handmade lithograph, or floral print, featuring a narcissus. Limited and numbered edition signed by artist. The miniature image in this fine art edition is 3 3/16 in. x 2 1/8 in. printed in black ink on hand-torn piece of Rives gray paper measuring 6 3/4 in. x 5 1/4 in. Categories: Al Young, Botanical, Lithograph
Product No.: 3.00.0171.011

Availability: In Stock

Item can ship by Friday, 16 January, 2009 through USPS Priority Mail with Delivery Confirmation

Narcissus

by Al Young

Black ink on BFK Rives gray paper (prints 16/30 through 30/30)

Documentation provided with each print.

Behind the Scene

Several years ago we took some pictures around the house, shots of the children doing everything from working in the shop to snitching dough from a baking bowl. We had the photographs developed at one of those places where speed is everything, and because of a problem in the processing or some misunderstanding, our color pictures were returned in black and white.

Much as an artist breaks unwanted habits of looking at a work in progress by turning it upside down (to force a fresh perspective), we, too, saw familiar scenes with new eyes. The thoughts and sounds and smells and feelings attached to all the colors in those scenes were gone. And so we saw, perhaps in some way as a child sees, a little of the wonder in our familiar world.

For many years before I came to lithography I worked primarily in pencil, and grew accustomed to translating the world of color into gray scale.

There is for me and has been as long as I can remember a love of black and white as though such images belong beyond some threshold at the borders of this world. And like stepping through the black and white words and pictures of an old book, read in the dappled shadows of the summer sun when days were measured only by the errands Mother had to run, I have stayed with black and white in producing images at that threshold.

The floral collection, for example, is a collection of pressed flowers. Pressed because the color in the leaves and petals is absent as the shape is absent from the petal-treasures in a favorite book that remember, perhaps a little wistfully, the warmth and fragrance of their summer day.

Framing the Lithograph

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