Block: Chipboard
Ink: Umber
Paper: Donated gracefully by Graphic Chemical Printmaking Supply - Graphic Heavyweight
Process: Tough to make any image from chipboard, but it suited my purpose for this print. Rather than "cutting," the process is more like controlled chipping and tearing of the block with various tools.
Image: Dedicated to the men and women who lost their lives trying to rescue those who were scrambling out of the World Trade Center Towers after the 9-11-2001 terrorist attack. Every image on television on the days after the disaster reminded me of chipboard, a confused mass of splinters.
Amazingly enough, toward that maze of entangled construction materials marched the rescue workers, as if they had ever envisioned such a task when they "signed up". Nevertheless, they could be seen searching through the impossible rubble with their hands, hoping to find anyone, the slightest whimper would send them scrambling...hoping that they would have been there to catch the falling...hoping now that their hands would be able to pull someone out.