Perfect Press Art Gallery -
Close-up and Technical
"Wave Square School" - Detail of the print
Catalog No. 79 0809 230
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- Technique: Intaglio
- Color: Burnt sienna on natural colored paper
- 12 x 9 inch image
- 16 x 12 inch sheet, approx.
- Date of origin: 1979
- Edition: Limited (Contact Davidson for number)
- Commissioned and Published by Davidson Galleries
- Produced in Seattle at Triangle Studios
- Paper(s): Van Gelder Zonen, 100% cotton rag
- Ink: Daniel Smith, Burnt Sienna Etching
- Printed by the artist
- Signature: Lower right
- Exhibited: Davidson Gallery Group Exhibits; One person show at Erica
Williams/Anne Johnson Gallery.
- Collections of Paul Lewis, Ritchie family, Clint Pehrson and others own
variations (e.g. Wave Square School Scroll).
- Artist's description: "When I did my first computer drawings in the mid
1970s, I rendered 108 views of the Wave Square from 108 points-of-view. The
plots were on thin paper that I could see right through as if the drawings
were on frosted glass. I could see through layer upon layer of paper and it
reminded me of visiting a fish hatchery. You see swarms of fish so close
together you can hardly see them at all! That's how I got the idea of the
School of Wave Squares."
- Artist's narrative: "The Wave Squares were part of the series
in which the architect and engineer's instrument--the T-square--was
warped, bent and twisted into a variety of shapes and put in different
settings. I videotaped wooden models of them and I created a CAD database (with
the help of Paul Lewis). In 1977, Keith Beckley and I made the Great Wave
Square temporary sculpture at Bumbershoot. I
made more videotapes, and then books full of hundreds of Wave Squares from
computer plots. Finally I made this soft-ground etching by tracing selected
images from those computer plots."