The carving of the linocut Ideopsis gaura (Dainty paperwing) Woman is entering its final stages in perfect unison with the last days of the 2015 Melbourne International Film Festival. (See previous post).
Directly below: the lino block on the
drafting table, surrounded by reference materials and other paraphernalia and overlooked
by chorus lines of Homo-insecta (top) Shadow
Women (bottom) and artworks by Jazmina Cininas, Rona Green and Claire
Humphries (left of screen).
My workstation at our warehouse apartment in Abbotsford, Melbourne |
Below are selected views of the linocut’s gradual progress throughout the past week: