Digital Printmaking

Deep in the woods I found Nick Cave’s shrine

One of many photos taken on a winter day in 2021 having a very bad mood with bad weather and thick fog in Tegler Forst (Berlin). It was one of these days that helps one make the best works ever – and I have already printed a couple of pictures taken that day and sold them. 

Another print is here: https://jeromegoldnose.com/moare-framed-trees/

Transfer print on painted wood in frame made of pap-maché clay
Materials: 5mm multiplex, metalic paint, toner, paper pulp, glue, sawdust, chalk
Dimensions: 58x42cm

Flesh and flowers

#fifthworldgonewild – if this shocks you, you are not ready for diversity yet. What if the #aliens landed, what would you do? No way you see the difference if they are having sex or if they are eating – what do you know about them aliens, right? We are not ready for that, we are not ready for true diversity from out of space, because we are not ready for diversity here on earth. 

Transfer print on painted wood in frame made of pap-maché clay
Materials: 5mm multiplex, metalic paint, toner, paper pulp, glue, sawdust, chalk
Dimensions: 40x45cm

Railroad to Bralitz, part 2

There used to be a railroad going towards the parts of Poland that used to be German (former Eastern-Prussia?) and towards a village called Bralitz.

The second one which was most likely still active in the time the GDR still existed and was closed under capitalism.  This is what it looks like now – minus the small shed labeled F0 (toilet?). I planted that there from a photo I took at the Letschin Bahnhof Museum – as something that is left behind.

It is pretty wild there with  all that growth and near the small river there are a number of broken willow trees. This panorama was shot the second time I went there.

My main works are now focused around the idea of things that have been left behind. It kinda is like envisioning a world without humans. Under the growth there are lots of concrete bars – but the tracks have been taken. That is for the railroad towards Bralitz. The track going east had wooden bars, I know because one can find remnants of them. There are traces of us humans everywhere.

Transfer print on painted wood
Materials: MDF 5mm, metalic paint, toner
Dimensions: 30x44cm

Around the green waters

Panorama shot in Wuhlethal in Berlin – original photos for this panorama were shot with an Ixus. Those cameras are not not that bad, especially when you hack and upgrade them with CHDK.

Materials: wooden plate, paint, toner, rusty metal parts
Printing Technique: Transfer print / Digital Printmaking

‘Dukdalf’ or ‘Schorfheide in a future without humans’

‘Dukdalf’ or ‘Schorfheide in a future without humans’ – print on a painted surface, closeup and digital original. Photo’s made by yours truly. I just found out that the Dutch name ‘Dukdalf’ for a post for mooring boats actually came from the Spanish Duke the Alba (or Alfa in Dutch). We were at war with the Spanish for 80 years, starting int he 16th century. And it is a reference to him being a cruel tyrant and what the people in that day and age wanted to do with him…

Materials: wooden plate, paint, toner
Printing Technique: Transfer print / Digital Printmaking
Dimensions: 42x43cm

 

Last Day of Winter / First Wood / Near that Hill – exhibited during Hungerwinter/Romantique as part of #48HNK 2022

These are 4 large sized artworks (almost A0) and are all hand made prints/transfers made from digital files. The technique is similar to what is done with photocopies or laser prints with lithography but not the same.

My theme was Hungerwinter / Romantique – here is more info on the story behind the works and how it fitted in the main theme for #48HNK2022.

I was very satisfied with the result and the reactions of the public. For now this is the way I will print for some time to come. I will, however, try to find other ways to make handcrafted prints based on digital files. Maybe it is time for a manifesto.

Last Day of Winter

Materials: paint, black and white print, paint, 3mm MDF board with Fiber composite material ornament
Printing Technique: Transfer print / Digital Printmaking
Dimensions: 2 boards of 87x145cm

First Wood

Materials: paint, laser print paint, 3mm MDF board
Printing Technique: Transfer print / Digital Printmaking
Dimensions: 74x120cm

Near that Hill

Materials: paint, laser print paint, 3mm MDF board
Printing Technique: Transfer print / Digital Printmaking
Dimensions: 74x120cm

What I made for the ‘Lotto BrandenBurg Fotografie Preis 2022’

Materials: paint, laser prints (color / B&W), MDF
Printing Technique: Transfer print / Digital Printmaking
Dimensions: up to 33x45cm

Application text:

The theme that unites all my works is time. I use my own digital photos to create images that are usually part of larger artworks. What you see here are just the prints, made the way I am now doing more and more: transfer printing on painted surfaces and then disguise them as artifacts weathered by time. For me the printing process I use now with digital images, is as important as creating a print from a negative like I used to do in a darkroom.

The works I create that way are fake, they are forgeries of artworks that have never existed. Or maybe they will, one day, in the future.

To the rest of the text I send with the images…

New way to print … on painted surfaces

I have been experimenting with a new way to print and it enables me to print on painted surfaces in both black and white – like I have don here – and in color.

This means for me that I am more and more mixing digital and analog – where analog has become more important to me. I like that I can finally print on rough surfaces, on surfaces that I painted before. I can print on surfaces that are painted in gold, that are shiny.

Materials: Fiber composite material, print, paint, black and white print
Printing Technique: Transfer print / Digital Printmaking
Dimensions: 50 x 50 cm