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(This section of the website added in 2000)
The 'Where I've Been' section talked about the
past, but before we can talk about 'Where I'm
Going', let's have a look at 'Where I'm At' ...
These two close-up scans of images from my
Hyakunin Isshu poets' series are shown at the same
scale. On the left is the first print in the set
(carved in 1988), and on the right is one from the
final year (1998).
The most obvious difference is perhaps to be
found in the hairlines - the older print has 25 in
14 mm, not quite 2 per millimetre, and the newer
print has 71 in 17.5 mm, or just a fraction over 4
per millimetre.
But it is the eyes and eyebrows that show a more
important difference - the ability of lines to
taper and swell as needed. The lines on the older
print look as though they were drawn with a
mechanical pencil; those on the right are
carved.
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