Thus - two coats of acrylic ink, stamped with birds all-over and then screenprinted with the Mouth ( a scanned engraving I had done previously); then the text that was originally intended for the outside screened on inside..... for the curious who would care to look through the bird-hole.
This is the Tweetbox or collapsed bird-box. There are two of these and one will be in an exhibition in Ireland and one will go on show in China at a very big print conference. This is all thanks to Noelle Noonan here and Catherine Hehir in Cork.
So, we had a six-hour window yesterday to design and print and during this there was a visit from a group representing a body concerned with art education - and education generally within the European commission. Your correspondent had a number of contacts with them throughout the course of the day and while tiring the whole was incredibly stimulating.....oh dear, how po-faced!! Look, it was just brilliant and you wouldn't have expected to have something like this right at the end of the year. Wonderful!
Here are some pictures of the process as it went on throughout the day:
The Tweetery at work
Note Eddie's highly -organised screenprint inks and Louise' intense concentration...
Back to the edition -Here is a picture of the first one and the second will be finished on Wednesday hopefully.
In the tradition of ground art that I have persisted with have a look at this and try to figure out what it is:
I will tell you later.
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