"Fractured"

Collagraph monoprint, 22 x 30". I made this print in March, 2010, using three plates and two stencils along with a technique I first used to make some monotype prints in November, 2009. This was the last in a series of five large prints. I really wanted to push myself with this series, working with the idea of the void and trying new imagery. I sat on the initial inking of this print for about a week before I decided what I was going to add in order to finish it. I was not sure about it as I completed the piece; when I went back to look at it about a week later, I decided I really liked it. It captured some of my feelings as I pushed my creative envelope; I often felt fractured as I made this series of prints, as though I were somehow destroying my preconceptions of my own art. I really feel like this print was a great culminating piece in a crucial series for me as an artist.