Woman and child silkscreen print series. I accidentally placed one acetate over the other one creating a band. I loved the band! It brought to mind interference on an analog television, remember those when we used to have three channels and no remote control? The picture would start to slip upwards leaving a band across the screen and a adult would need to go and twiddle a knob at the back of the set to adjust the vertical hold.

Vertical hold also brings to mind the mother/daughter relationship, complex emotions, love, frustration, misunderstandings sometimes. The hold a mother has over her daughter and the daughter over the mother.

The images are experiments and work in progress. Some time was spent manipulating the photographs in Photoshop to get the right balance and then the images were saved as halftone bitmaps, at 45 degrees and 40 lines per inch.

Background layers, on the left charcoal on tru grain exposed on the light unit at 20 units, under exposed to capture the grey areas of the charcoal. On the right oil pastel on tru grain exposed at 22 units.

The original photographs.