Featured Artist: David Stichweh

by urban-acupuncture | Dec 10, 2015 | Art

My photography is a visual exploration of relationships between shapes, forms,

textures and light as found in trees, plants, water and landscape.  These

ever-changing patterns of natural design are further changed by the process used in

making the print.

My Photo Transfer Print technique is similar to the Monotype printmaking process.  A

traditional Monotype print is an image drawn or painted on a metal or glass plate,

then covered with a sheet of paper and passed through a press.  In a Photo Transfer

Print a digital image is printed on a sheet of acetate where the ink remains wet on

the surface.  Placing a sheet of paper over the acetate and applying pressure

transfers the ink to the paper.  The resulting image possesses a combination of

highly textured and smooth tonal areas determined by the density of the ink.  The

Japanese Silk Tissue paper on which the images are printed creates delicate fine

detail and a warm luminosity.

Photography is an adventure in seeing – of perceiving the familiar with fresh eyes,

and seeing new possibilities for printing and presenting the image.