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Essentially, these new oils were made in a single three week
explosion of creativity over Christmas. It was a prolonged moment of
inspiration, the catalyst of which was a single condensed moment of sheer panic
when I realised that I had absolutely no oil paintings left to show prospective clients in the New Year!
The etchings are a different matter altogether, two of which
came about after I was encouraged to look again at older plates from the late
90’s that had never really be satisfactorily completed (now called Dreaming of Jerusalem and
Babylon Recall). Most of the rather minimal images were erased from the plates
with a heavy duty power grinder and then re-polished leaving traces of things
to re work (the palimpsest idea again…see the post on November 2011 below)
The third etching, the one titled Mada Mekudash is one that
I started while in Jerusalem last summer and although I have been working on
them all consistently since then, they have taken a long time to finish. I think it
was worth it. I hope you do too.
And I’ll be back in Jerusalem working on new mezzotints at
Jerusalem Print Workshop in June.
