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I’ve spent the last week mucking around in the print labs trying to find the best way to move forward with my ideas.

Screen-printing is where I started, making a yellow and purple image that doesn’t hold any art value to me and was more of a technical tool for understanding. i really enjoyed the labour of screen-printing, the process of cleaning screens and the physical exertion of it all, but its extremely time consuming and not very efficient for the kind of churning through of ideas that my practice requires, however i still love the visual outcome.

…in comes Risograph printing. Im able to churn through the ideas at a rate of production that is compliant with the speed of my thinking. However I am limited to A3 prints, and i often want to make pieces bigger than that.

So heres my solution, a series of photoshopped and rudimentary sketches in photoshop, manipulating the images and shapes from my commute, then taking the best of those into the riso printer, to see how they react to the texture and quality of printing, and finally taking the final amazing ones into screen printing, and producing larger versions of the successful riso prints.