Printer's Block
by Richard Reeve
Title
Printer's Block
Artist
Richard Reeve
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Modern artists often use small scale wooden block printing techniques to either directly apply a patter to fabric or use wax in batik printing. However, the factory workers who used these old wooden printing blocks to carefully apply standard patterns to yard after yard of material, day in and day out probably had quite a different perspective than there descendants...
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February 16th, 2014
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Meg Shearer
Wonderful image Richard! I love the focus and abstract feel. I imagine these are more fun for us than they were for the workers... L/F!!!
Richard Reeve replied:
Thank you, Meg. I agree, often we look at old objects with "rose-tinted spectacles"..
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