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Zachary Foster

i think i'm dreaming

I’ve wanted to do this print for a very long time. The photograph printed is a film photograph taken in 2019 on top of Decker Mountain in the spearhead range. For those unfamiliar the spearhead range is behind the famous Whistler ski resort, which now costs an arm and a leg for a lift ticket... vail am I right. The prep time on this was disgusting as it was my first time using pins and tabs for registration and mixing ink from scratch with base, retarder and pigment. The ratio used allowed me to acheive what I like to call “dreamy” ink and lower the saturation of the image is 7:1 base to pigment, it really allowed the colours to blend well, but of course I burned the stencils too close together and too close to the edge of the screen so I had some pretty serious technical difficulties when it came to registration and dot gain. Luckily for me, the print was easy enough to line up with pins and tabs and due to the fact it is a rectangle. The title of this piece is i think i’m dreaming. I’d like to attempt this again at some point due to the dot gain issue but overall I like the abstract look in some of the prints. Yay! I love cmyk.

“ This print attempts to invite the viewer to the emotion felt when experiencing beauty when exhausted. The soft pallete makes you look deeply into the image as if it were a dream, you can’t look away. The stark contrast with the mostly blue base and the yellow and orange tent makes for a stunning focal point in this piece. I hope you feel what I do when I look at this, and if you don’t, well you better go experience it for yourself. ”