These multi-layered screen prints sprung from the festival’s kaleidoscope theme as a visual jumping off point, using my grandparents' old Spirograph for the symmetrical and repeating patterns.
I used a monoprint screen printing process that resulted in a large suite of one-of-a-kind prints, prompting the viewer to take a closer look. Each print is unique in its colors, but uniform in overall design and form, much like the ever-changing view through a kaleidoscope.
These were made with pigment additives and a mix of fluorescent, process, semi-transparent, and opaque inks - to create the unique blended split-fountain and painterly effects, printed on 12.5’’x19’’ heavy stock grout gray paper.
LGBTQ+ filmmaker Sharon ‘Rocky’ Roggio receiving this print as winner of CIFF’s DReam Maker Award for their film 1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture. Photos courtesy of CIFF.
Mono screen printing process time lapse, giving the first layer of these prints a painterly and blended foundation.
