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A haloed, winged figure drives a spear into the mouth of a horned dragon, the whole scene cut in heavy black line inside a double-ruled border. There is no shading anywhere in it. Every grey you think you can see is the white of the paper coming back through the cut marks.
Natalie cut the block by hand and pulled the print from it, working in the manner of the blockbooks that circulated before movable type: the same bold outline, the same economy, the same willingness to let one line do all the work.
She made it for the screening of her own short film, The Dragons at Lindisfarne, and printed copies to sell on the night. It is an open edition, so it is not numbered.
Relief printing leaves the ink sitting on the surface of the sheet rather than sunk into it, which is why the black reads as properly black rather than grey. Keep it out of direct sunlight and away from damp.
A haloed, winged figure drives a spear into the mouth of a horned dragon, the whole scene cut in heavy black line inside a double-ruled border. There is no shading anywhere in it. Every grey you think you can see is the white of the paper coming back through the cut marks.
Natalie cut the block by hand and pulled the print from it, working in the manner of the blockbooks that circulated before movable type: the same bold outline, the same economy, the same willingness to let one line do all the work.
She made it for the screening of her own short film, The Dragons at Lindisfarne, and printed copies to sell on the night. It is an open edition, so it is not numbered.
Relief printing leaves the ink sitting on the surface of the sheet rather than sunk into it, which is why the black reads as properly black rather than grey. Keep it out of direct sunlight and away from damp.
I am a typesetter and letterpress printer, working with metal type and other forms of relief printing. As a student of medieval literature at university, I have been interested in early bookmaking practices. My work is inspired by historical print culture, especially broadside pu
