Where I'm Going ...


(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.