What if printmaking.......

..was not existent anymore? I would feel OK with that but I would find a way to multiply. The multiple is a key component of my work and this, probably because of printmaking. No, so far I have never been interested in the way prints were made but by the result they bring to the work. Like Leslie mentioned in her post, we use silkscreen to print on walls and litho to obtain multiples values, but if we invert those techniques and find a solution to print on the wall with a litho stone? The work would become something else and this is what I am looking for in my work .

Also by extending the surface to a 3 dimensional one, I need to be aware of the kind of material I'm using. What I am realizing is that several print makers will focus on a technique and incorporate it to all their subjects. Do the work become more about the technique or the actual subject? If the gesture is your main goal, like the action painting in the 50's, then do the subject painted is really important or if the action is the subject? I think the action is the subject and today, with sculpture and mix media, we need to be aware of the material we use and if we print, what is the imagery we are using. We are no longer in the 50's and people outside the art world as references about everything!

I feel that the challenge is bigger, but also animate my creativity by questioning, not just the subject, but the support and the technique I am using to express my idea.