Prints
“Packaged Views”, published by See Through Books with a grant from The Lower East Side Printshop, is a series of engravings depicting situations of Lower Manhattan light and space in 1990. The images juxtapose historical and contemporary urban practices. The intensity of the mixed-use location is captured in eight views. The prints are 6x8 inch copper engravings in black on 10x13” Rives BFK paper.
Each title page is a unique silk-screened monotype on which Future and Bodoni typefaces mix to reiterate the interaction of old and new.
The flaps of a hand silk-screened envelope are cut into silhouettes of actual buildings from the neighborhood which appear in the prints. These “buildings” open up to reveal the views and narrative about the education of the artist by the place. The envelope is silk=screened in a pattern reproducing the eight engravings.
The whole presentation consists of layers of dense imagery evocative of the rich, varied texture of the actual Lower Manhattan environment.