Looking Back

Masks
Originally uploaded by m.Lee

This is one of my first woodblock prints. At the time I was still pretty into doing self-portraits and masks are a theme that have come up in my work on and off for many years.

This piece was made for the class I took at Mass Art called "Print into Books" taught by the inspiring Annie Silverman. She's a printmaking not a bookbinder and the book part was a bit of an afterthought. And I am cool with that because she and that class changed my life.

While I did love that original block I moved on to carve many new blocks until a few months ago I stumbled upon it while organizing my blocks and figured what the heck, why not see what I can do with it now? Here are a handful of the pieces I have made with it since.









Then there are the ACEOs I have made splitting up the faces.




I guess this one piece shows exactly where I have come from as an artist in the past two years and what I have done with what I started with. Oh and go Sox I guess!