Images of a forgotten girl -

"Winds of October"
digital collage by Mick Mather

I've posted a few other images from a body of work that is soon to become a series, I think. The working title for these works is called, as the introductory title suggests, Images of a Forgotten Girl and you can see the others here and here. An offshoot of the She's Not There Series, these pieces deal with one person in relation to the old saying "out of sight, out of mind". While never really forgotten completely, it's more of a comment on my own bent for misidentification or the doppelganger effect ... anyway, another half dozen pieces and I believe I can make the series official.

Back to school -

"She's Not There #45"
digital collage by Mick Mather

In tonight's post I hark back to that time when my printmaking was literally hands-on for the 20+ years spent cutting linoleum and erasers using the block-relief method. For those who don't know, this entails drawing on the block and then cutting away the negative spaces, leaving the image in relief. Ink is then rolled onto the block, paper laid atop of it and through hand pressure, using a wooden spoon, a barren or a press, the image is transferred ... but, I digress. While the image seen here tonight is digital, it has that old school, block-relief print look about it and much of my work from those days looked a lot like this.

NEW from The She's Not There Series -

"They Say It's Your Birthday"
montage by Mick Mather

This piece is quite old and, until now, there haven't been additions to this series since 2005. As a body of work the pieces were always very personal for me, one might even say cathartic. In any case, there's really nothing further for me to say here except that, in spite of the distance between that time and this, some thoughts cannot be controlled, tamed or suppressed. "They", as referenced in the title, happen to be said thoughts. Personally? As already stated, I have nothing further to say. (Sigh).