Upper School Art Gallery
Sam Pritzker TBS '10
Rotations in Red
Our class was given a block of rubber stamp printing material and we were told to figure out as a group how we would divide the pieces for everyone to have a stamp. We chose an intricate design with multiple different shapes. The outline of this design was drawn on the rubber and then the pieces were cut out and distributed. The next class, we did an activity where we sat around the table and everyone picked a gouge out of a bucket, each one with a different cutting head. Then we passed our pieces around the table and everyone made one mark on each piece. After printing just one stamp of this, we were told to take artistic license and choose one or more of the following to use on our next print: tessellations, translations (slides), rotations or random placement. I didn't really know which one of these I was using when I was making my print. I just went along with a design that looked cool and as it turned out it was an example of rotation. It is approximately vertically symmetrical. The consistency of the ink from stamp to stamp is not perfect, nor is the placement of all of the stamps. The final product looks rather southwestern to me. It reminds me of some of the geometric art I saw when I went to New Mexico.
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