tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883690837232727492.post8743553602507619612..comments2024-01-11T02:21:44.598-08:00Comments on Words on Woodcuts: Margaret Preston and Cultural Appropriation Martha Knoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10681751924771756798noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883690837232727492.post-52607327514117531922017-09-12T00:01:55.083-07:002017-09-12T00:01:55.083-07:00A few years ago I attended the International Mokuh...A few years ago I attended the International Mokuhanga Conference in Tokyo, and chatted to a young woman who was working with native Australians somewhere west of Darwin. She was teaching them printmaking techniques. Perhaps you could pick up a trail of the results of work made by people who live the stories of the Dreamtime communicating by using printmaking techniques. <br /> Jennifer Martindalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13557427705523568053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883690837232727492.post-9705782899486245342017-09-11T14:13:12.093-07:002017-09-11T14:13:12.093-07:00solid thinking and at the same breath a great exam...solid thinking and at the same breath a great examination of the artist and the subject...there are times when I see T'linget and Haida designs and marvel as I have copied them and attempted to render them as well from a place of stylistic re-interpretation, often feeling as an outsider, even though reaching into the theories behind the work as well as having trained with native carvers, I have been able to understand a key influence is in the border between the shore and the water, in the reflections as well as the influence of hunting and butchery/anatomy. In the search for a unique voice and in the kinship that seems to call from primordial native work, there is a strange torch to pass that as a modern culture we must invest ourselves deeply into if we are going to accept our own interpretations as valid in a society whose currency is in reproductions and advertising...when as artists we are seeking to find a compass into life and our experiences with the world around usKashyaphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04412615501317777710noreply@blogger.com