Following on from my initial use of a roller in combination with letterpress to create mono prints, I have taken this one step further by bypassing making direct prints from the letterpress blocks and using them as a means to make larger roller mono prints. Taking another of my manifestos to work with, I tried printing with just a single roll of the roller over the letters as well as printing when the roller has been across the letters multiple times to pick up the shapes of the letters more than once. When you roll over the letters once the print makes it easy to identify discrepancies where a letter has been missed or is not fully reproduced on the roller, however the shapes that are made are interesting motifs that could stand alone as a form of “anti-text”. Multiple uses of the roller over the same letters produce a far busier and less linear result with several versions of the statement overlapping. The process also produced an extra print on the letters themselves, showing a slight off-set from the original letters. To try and get the resulting printed text the right way round I also tried first rolling the ink onto aluminium and then taking the print from there, The result is effective, however this does make the print hazy with more imperfections from the sheet of metal, there are too may degrees of separation from the letterpress blocks here. What proved slightly more successful was printing from the roller directly onto acetate, giving the same level of crispness of the print whilst allowing the letters to be seen the right way round through the clear plastic.
Whilst the direct prints have their own charm I think that the future of this work will be through screen print once I have successful roller prints on acetate, as I can edit the imagery and use the more stable printing process to create layers. Once this has been created I could go on to use other processes on top.
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AuthorThird Year BA Hons Fine Art student studying at Falmouth University Archives
April 2017
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