Day #13, November 30, 2013 from What’s in My Drawers.
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| Make a Wish Collograph, gesso, oil, graphite, rubber stamp on paper 30″ x 22″ ©NanciHersh $325.00 |
Make a Wish is from a series I did when my now teenage sons, were very young, using recycled children’s clothing as a vehicle to tell the stories of childhood/motherhood, time passing, and memory.
Often in this work, numbers and letters float through space.
This is a collograph print. I coated the clothing with an acrylic gel medium that when dried creates a hard impermeable surface that I rolled up with ink and embossed onto a sheet of paper using a table top etching press.
Childhood flies by in a blur. Memory, reality and fantasy float in and out of the day to day rituals of feeding, dressing, changing- and that all too elusive- sleeping. I always say that my boys make me “work for a living” (!) but I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Ok, I wouldn’t mind a little more compliance. Make a Wish.
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