MARGARET COOTER
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Waders, 8.5 x 14 cm
A three-layer reduction print, on Hosho paper adapted from a newspaper photo that caught my eye. The reflections of the birds are also their shadows.
Shadow Dancers, 19 x 25 cm
The strong light of summer fell on some fruit stems lying on the studio table. I photographed the stems and their shadows and traced around the shapes, then used them for a reduction woodcut. Having forgotten to flip my drawing before transferring it to the board, I found myself making a second, correct, version - and was able to experiment with printing on the reverse to subtly change the colours.
Reduction print on Tosa Shi Japanese paper.
The shape of the light in the night, 26 x 38cm
Streetlights shine through an uncurtained window, hit a flat mirror and then ricochet between it and a round mirror nearby, casting their shadows onto a bare wall. The photograph of the phenomenon was itself mirrored and then digitally manipulated, resulting in a cutting plan for the five layers of this reduction print.
Mirrored and flipped images; reduction woodblock printed on Hosho paper.