ARTIST:
TITLE: From 36 views of Green Island: No 26 Footprint
MEDIUM: Japanese woodblock print
SIZE: 25*19cm
EDITION: 25
FRAMED: Yes
These 36 views are presented in the Sosaku Hanga tradition: self carved and hand printed, using Japanese tools, Japanese mulberry washi and traditional pigment colours. Each print will be made from 4 to 6 blocks in an edition of 25 copies.
Human footprints are made and lost in countless numbers every day. In the sand by the water, it only takes a few waves to entirely erase the signs of a person passing by.
By a rare chance a print is sometimes preserved and we are able to study the clues to understand something of the printmaker. Ideal conditions are needed for a print to remain as a mark in time. Fresh prints need to be quickly covered over to avoid fading into nothing.
At Lake Mungo in inland NSW hundreds of footprints of men, women and children tell of life as it was 20,000 years ago. This is the largest collection of fossil human footprints found anywhere in the world.