Elizabeth L. Blumberg
Body Count Series I
"In my artwork I use the woodcut process, which is also known as xylography. This is a relief printing artistic technique in printmaking in which an image is carved into the surface of a block of wood, with the printing parts remaining level with the surface while the non-printing parts are removed, typically with gouges. The result is a plate somewhat like a large typewriter key; the raised areas will take the ink and produce the image. Ink is applied to the carved plate with a roller, and paper pressed onto the surface of the plate, either by hand pressure or with a printing press. The final product is what you see with Body Count Series #1."
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Body Count Series VI
"Similar to Body Count Series #1, this piece uses the same process, but represents a rather different emotion. Continuing with the woodcut process, it is one of the earliest and most direct forms of printing. The technique of woodcut was first developed in China sometime around the Ninth Century. It was refined to a very high degree in the next few centuries in Japan, where techniques for multi-color prints were developed."
-Blumberg
-Blumberg