A few selections from Intro to Print, a class that surveyed a handful of image-making techniques, all messy, most satisfying. The polar bear was gouged into a woodblock and relief printed by rolling a paint-covered brayer over top, then squeezed through a hand-wound press onto card-stock. The goal was to go activist more or less,…
Author: colinmichaelmoore
Life is a box of life. You never know what you're always going to get.
Pixel Project
I’m not a painter, at least not on this day. Or since! An early assignment we had in Intro to Studio Practice at NSCAD was to select a high contrast image and block it off in squares. Using gouache, a quick-drying spirit-breaking watercolor, we would approximate the image using tonalities. Squinting at the final work…
Meat Me in St. Louis
Because we can.
Hockey Comes Home (2009)
Penguins waddle across warm asphalt sidewalks, in groups, to some common destination. The younger ones stumble about with fresh bed-head. Others carry slogans on bristol-board bent and rolled and hockey sticks buffed clean for an autograph, hopefully. Bird after bird they’re on the move, hoping to catch a glimpse of the Emperor himself. In Cole…
Salsa Burns the Korean Capital (2010)
There’s a certain amount of fear. That’s understandable. For a novice on the dance floor, drops of self-esteem can fall away with the sweat. Take salsa for example. Depending on the dancer, it’s either an energetic way to shed a humble skin or turn it to scar tissue. It helps to be in good hands. …
Of Men and Bulls (2007)
When it runs out, you can feel your breath suck in. Even from a distance there’s no getting around it, this is a big piece of meat. It bounds out of the gate like it’s been held back for a lifetime and let go. Three toreros, banderilleros, are waiting on the field, though don’t let…
War Memorial of Korea (2010)
Since 1993, the War Memorial of Korea has sat hulked beside the U.S. army garrison in Yongsan-dong, Seoul. At 3,000 won per adult head, it’s less than a latte with slightly more value. Outside, exhibits make grand statements by grand design. Patton and K-1 tanks. A lone B-52. Korean test-pilot vehicles with frozen propellers, some…
Darth by the Sea
Crushing the Rebellion is a dark enterprise but just as much exhausting I suspect. Incompetent generals, poor throne-room lighting and regular humiliation at the hands of heroes with names like “Luke” and “Han.” Come on. Even a Sith Lord needs to take five. On this occasion, it’s via Maritime serenity along the Nova Scotian coastline….
Colin Moore 