I always really appreciate your comments Coco, good tips thank you. Computers annoy me, but I'm thinking pen drawing, probably digital would indeed give the best results. More slick, more detail, easily changed. New things to learn.
After an initial rush to produce something right now to counterbalance and soothe the negativity of our times, I will try take my time now a bit more, also with posting.
why I choose prints;
I wanted to add value to the world, that can be traded and excanged. And I searched all my life for the angle to make art that kicks the correct ass.
I believed tangible artobjects are a bit more holy, charming. There is something beautiful and wonderous about the texture of the paper and ink. Soberness is associated with Protestantism, but I suspect maybe Fryas already didn't even really like fancy art because of these illusions, and lino would be closer to that soberness, unpretentiousness. Art is almost instantly idolatrous and gnostic/esoteric, and there is a downside to that.
Another advantage is that the cruder forms of linocutting don't have much detail, and the observer's imagination will fill in, and would stay closer to themselves instead of me leading them.
The checkerboard was an intuitive thing, looking at tea-towels, but since I carved it I noticed it in ancient greek mosaic (of a nautical event i believe), celtic fabric and shields and kalash clothing, so maybe something ancestral came through? It is likely one of the first patterns to weave.
My prints would be displayed in a wooden frame behind glass, autographed and numbered limited edition, they are not posters to me. The frame could be carved/decorated too.
try-out figurine abt 10cm high

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