With printmaking, do you
etchings, and just tons of different printthink it is easier to create texmaking. I didn’t apply to printmaking
tual work, because you aren’t
for graduate school because there were
really focusing on creating
only a certain amount of spots that were
these perfect forms, but maybe
open. Painting and drawing always had
just choosing the right word/
tons of spots, so I sort of hedged my
language to use?
bets and just went into painting and
I did a lot of writing back when
drawing instead. Which really worked
I was a student here. I actually
out, because that was a whole other
did my thesis on the relationship
skill set that I had. When I came back
between text and image, because
and applied for this job [at Rollins] I had
I always found it very fascinating.
to teach half of the studio curriculum—
Anything I saw where text was the
from figure drawing to basically everyimage was just always very compelthing. Everything except for graphic deConfluence, charcoal and image transfer on paper ling to me. As an artist and writer, I
sign and photography. If I didn’t make
collaboration work with Lee Lines have incorporated text a lot within
that decision, I wouldn’t have been able
my work. I also have access to all
to do all of that. I’ve been teaching the
printmaking course here since 2008. We’ve there are fumes. There is a whole new move- of this equipment here as a professor.
changed a lot of our equipment; most of it is ment within printmaking to make it greener.
It’s always encouraging me. I’m an artist who
environmentally friendly.
likes a lot of other stuff, not just art. I’m into
How new?
What processes are safer?
I want to say within the last 15 years, people environmental science, comics, and fiction.
Water-based, mostly; all of the screen printing have really started to focus on it because a lot I’ve always been interested in little science
that we do here is water based. With things of printmakers are exposed to a lot of toxic guides on how to identify rocks and lizards,
etc.—any kind of science material really. I draw
like etching, you have to use acid baths and stuff for decades.
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