31 January 2008

Two New Prints

Below are images of two new prints. They were editioned (16 copies) for an exchange portfolio, Discovery: The Tradition of New Tools. The portfolio will be showing at the annual Southern Graphics Council conference, where I will not be in attendance.


Communication With Chile (Te Extraño)
Digital output, punched hole
11 x 14 inches


Te Quiero Decir (Siempre Eres Bienvenido Aquí)
Etching, drypoint, relief
11 x 14 inches

20 January 2008

Chile 2008

The Andes from the airplane--no man's land


Cristobal, his cousins and Rosa in the back seat on the way to Navidad


Home in Chile


Sergio, my oldest [Chilean] brother


Rosa and a bowl of fruit picked from the backyard
(including figs I wrestled off the tree with force and a well-crafted stick)


Looking up the hill and penca plants gone to flower


Path from where I came, Las Brisas


Dunes in Las Brisas


Kathy in the backyard, under Cristobal's photographic direction


Sweet Cristobal in the backyard


Kathy, Juan Luis (a.k.a. The Vegetable Man) and Belén (niece of JL, sleeping to my right but not pictured) driving between Navidad and San Vincente de Tagua Tagua, in the vegetable van (of course);
the S. Vin. T.T. area houses most of Juan Luis's giant family--the most humorous Chileans I have ever met


At the home of Orlando Jarra, absolute sweetheart and brother-in-law of Juan Luis; large clay oven and bread baskets--this is the home of a bread maker and the source of yummy empanadas


Orlando and Belén's house in Tunca Abajo, just outside of San Vincente de Tagua Tagua; this is where I stayed


Traveling to the Cáhuil salt fields by horse and wagon--the only way


Salt fields in Cáhuil


Salt field with rusty color


Close up of a pool divider, dirt and an occasional board


Salt pile on shore


Sweet man working in the salt fields


Kathy in the salt fields


Dam of the Rio Rapel, the largest in the nation--a whole lot of concrete


Rio Rapel just after the dam


Ricardo, his niece Katalina in the Rio Rapel


Katalina, now 1 and walking since 5 days before this picture was taken


Ricardo and Kata


The Hurtado crew on the beach of the Rio Rapel, La Vega de La Boca