Jealous Over Time "Jealous Over Time" was created from two photographic etching plates, one photo-litho plate and one stone lithographic wash drawing. The two outer figures "book ending" this print were exposed on the same plate yet because of their spacing, I was able to apply two different colours of ink, saving time and increasing the complexity of the work in one pass through the press! These particular image for "Jealous Over Time" were exposed on a new brand of photo-etching plate which gives an amazingly high resolution for hand printed photographic printmaking while maintaining excellent detail and wonderfully wide tonal range, reminiscent of photo-gravure. Toyobo Printight plates are used in commercial printing but like most things of this nature, artists get a hold of them and start to play!
		Both the blue female and the green male figures were photographed at the Muse'e d'Orsav in Paris in the summer of 2004. I really should have jotted down the names of the two sculptors in order to give credit where credit is definitely due, but unfortunately, when I'm in a museum, actively trying to capture photographs of work I think will be fruitful in making my own art, I'm in "hunting" mode. No time to stop and fiddle with details. I'm quickly responding to a figure or form that intrigues me, photographing from numerous angles and desperately fighting the ambient light which is so often dim in good museums. Since flash photography is not only offensive to other museum patrons but also potentially damaging to the work I'm trying to emulate, care, focus shallow breathing and a steady hand are required! The center image is of an antique grandfather clock photographed at the British Museum in the summer of 2003.
		Once the primary images for a print are sorted out and printed it's often necessary to reevaluate the effectiveness of the work and possibly add a few surface details to either enrich the tone, colour or to enhance the depth of meaning of the work. With this print I felt it needed not only further aging to give a sense of the passage of time but also something mechanical or measured which would reflect the science of time and man's constant need to organize it. To this end I created a linear arched diagram, sectioned with roman numerals. Compositionally this helps to frame or "cap off" the right side of the print.
		The final embellishment was the addition of a lithographic tusche wash which was painted on a slab of Bavarian limestone and hand printed with a "Blend Roll" of ink to create a variation in colour. This plate helps to unify several images as well as give the print an aged look.
		But of course before the drawing can be made the printing surface must be prepared. For stone lithography that means grinding a slab of lithographic limestone to erase the previous image and then polish the surface to the desired drawing texture or "tooth."
	Once the stone surface is prepared, drawing can begin. For this wash impression I used both Korn's Lithographic Tusche, which reticulates wonderfully, and rubbing crayon to manipulate the depth of tone over one of the photographic images.
	"Jealous Over Time" was drawn, exposed, processed and printed at the Honolulu Printmakers Workshop in the Honolulu Academy of Arts Linekona Art Center in 2006.