This piece is accomplished by taking another step in the Process, Progression series. Again, we are relying on random organic ink flows inside a screen, with some form-constraints, in this case a small circle and a 2-inch square field. To introduce randomness (aside from my janky carefree application of the screen print), we sprinkle paper dot cutouts, castoffs from the hole punch tool. Each successive swipe of the small 2-inch screen picks up more of them because the ink is tacky, creating its own random stencil through the successive printing operation. Screenpaint strokes were applied in a snaking pattern starting top left, moving right 5 steps, down a step, moving left 5 steps, down a step, and so on.
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A fun effect of this process is that when you step back and squint at the whole piece, it looks sort of like a messy inverted halftone gradient, which is what you might see if you look at a picture in a printed newspaper with a magnifying glass. But ours was made through a planned random process.
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It’s fun to have so many frames that create this piece, that we can stack them into an animation and watch the individual strokes and stencils change through the run. I shot each one and created a video from the combination.
