Lucinda Tanner

Participating in The Land as Other

Rewilding: abandoning landscapes to the unpredictable

Some print processes are about chance and variability

'Chance operations, not controlled; what might they propagate?'

I create large format, multi-colour woodcut prints. My current studio practice is concerned with investigations into rewilding my printing process.

Monotype or marbling techniques, where ink is unconstrained by matrix, are combined with woodcut prints. Masking with gum Arabic preserves selected areas from the marbled ink.

These multi process works seek to express the 'full catastrophe' - an affirmation of life's variety and chaos.

Other investigation is focused on the reduction print and its potential to express ideas around loss, in particular, loss of biodiversity.

Shifting baseline; daedal to facile

Complex, detailed, elaborate, intricate,

lessened, reduced, diminished to

simple, unrefined, uniform, plain

Reduction; removal

The reduction woodcut - with each reduction, an escalation of risk

Once it is gone, it is gone.

Replace; restore

The language of reviviscence - returning to life or vigour

Printmaking is an act of reversal

The reduction process destroys the matrix. There is the chance, however, to rebuild the matrix with a collograph technique. What was lost is restored. It can't replicate exactly what was removed, the rebuilt collograph won't produce the same image but some detail is replaced.