My Statement

In this piece i was looking at life from beginning to end.

If a person is lucky life can last a long time, 

you reach the end of the book.

Finished Book on display in the hall of Clúain Mhuire.

This is my matrix i have pop riveted the sides together

to create a circle, white paper has being inserted inside

to make the images more prominent, hoping to use this

together with the book maybe as a stand for the book.

Covering book for a nicer finish.

Finished piece opened.

Starting to remove pages.

Lifting cover, clamps have being used to hold down

 remaining parts of book.

Preparing Book for my print, cutting of book cover.

Finish Print

Process: lyrics of lion king printed on Epsom printer, the matrix which is 

perspex has being etched with images starting with baby and mother 

ending with two grave stones. The matrix is inked up with black ink

cleaned off with tissue paper and scrim. The matrix is placed on the printing press

bed and the paper which has being soaked and blotted is then placed over the

plate. It is now ready to print.

Sample of a page that i hope my book will look like 

the above was done in photo shop, the image was faded to 30%.

For my finish piece the lyrics will be faded  in the background and the image 

will be etched, printed and more prominent.

Circle of Life lyrics to be placed as a background 

for printing over.

Closeup of crosshatching used on my images

Using a sheet of perspex, placing seven images of life at different stages .

Etching into perspex shapes will be a contour of the images.

Kara Walker

In the 1990s, American artist Kara Walker revived the art of the cut-paper silhouette, popular in nineteenth-century portraiture. Walker transformed this medium to suit her more transgressive aims, using the spare elegance of the black forms to depict scatological and sexually explicit tableaux set in the Civil War South.

Silhouette images birth to death

Silhouettes on text 

According shape for book ?

Liked this image done in silhouette, looking at life from young to old.

ENSO

Found this Enso when i was looking at the circle of life.

Enso is the Japanese word for circle and is considered a form of 

minimalist expressionist art. It is also an emblem of Zen Buddhism, 

 a symbol of infinity, enlightenment.

I liked the simplicity of this video dealing with life.

Starting Out

Getting Older

One Left Behind

Together Again

Cutting Out Silhouettes

Looking at life cycle from cradle to grave in silhouette figure.

Albert Einstein

John Lennon

This wonderful work was done by artist Alex Queral who craves Portraits into phone books.

Queral started carving phone books 14 years ago.

He says that in carving and painting a head from a phone directory he is celebrating the individual lost in the anonymous list of thousands of names that describe the size of the community

Photoshop Drawing 

Using Indian ink to create different backgrounds

in order to make the cut out heads more prominent

at the moment just playing with different ideas.

This is the image that gave me the idea of going

 from young to old in my book, i am hoping to 

create different stages through life.

White Butterfly (Rebecca J. Coles)

Connecting Worlds(Les Bicknell)

Galway City Museum

I was looking at the link from when people start out together and make a nest like other animals, the hen and her eggs need a home, they just need a place to crash does not matter what the house is like, to busy trying to live their lives, then they get to a stage they want something better to upgrade, then kids have grown moved out and moved on to different places, you get old,  you die,house goes to wreck, and the next cycle starts again.

Ann Harrington Rees

Eala 1

Paper pulp,acrylic paint, paper clips 

First Collagraph Posted 

hello

not as easy as you said.