BRITISH TREES

British Trees
screen printed box containing 9 screen printed cards
edition of 75 16x12cm SOLD OUT

When a print is being produced, the sheet to be printed has to be positioned and registration tabs put in place so that each sheet is put exactly in the same position when being printed. These screen printed cards were made registration free, without using any registration tabs. The result is that the prints are all unique with the element of chance, some are in registration and others are in various stages of mis-registration. I did discover that an out of registration print does contain more energy than a print in registration which I found interesting.

I did however have a different purpose for making this box of cards. Having looked at cheap mass printing much of which is shoddy and out of registration, I was thinking about the great lengths that the manufacturing process is going to and the recourses being used to make something unsatisfactory and ephemeral. I had also had some card sets of kinds of trees as a child and felt that although they attempt to give information, I'm not sure that they would be good enough to identify a species of tree. I took this a stage further and made very general stylised drawings of varieties of trees. Therefore the finished cards take paper made from trees to depict trees

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