I started Winter Quarter this week and I'm taking a Mono-Printing class. Our first assignment is to just gather inspiration from our incredible Art Library we have right in the Art building at UW, and do some drawings to start forming ideas. I'm also taking a class called "Anthropology of the Post-Soviet States." I guess the combination of the two classes has spurred on the idea of doing a series of prints illustrating The Czech Republic today and the still visible scars of Soviet Control on the country. When I went to Europe last spring I spent 3 days in Prague and trained all the way across the country. I've been haunted by the quiet, still, broken down beauty and antiquity of the Czech Republic over the past week.
I'm quite excited to get to work. So many patterns and a focused colored palette naturally there! And the quiet dreariness of the countryside that I want to try to capture. It should be quite hard though. We'll see if my enthusiasm stays :)
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