Raquel Izquierdo
Water is a medium that erodes and accumulates sediments creating organic shapes in Nature. In the patterns of wood grain we can imagine the water movements that once gave life to a three, so woodcut allows exploring the different states of this compound that constantly changes our environment. On the other hand, water has a reflective quality that inverts and multiplies reality, a print is the result of two surfaces in contact with each other, i.e., the block and the paper. Reversal and reproduction are elements of traditional printmaking techniques which only the printmaker themselves experience, while the viewer sees only the results of the process, the final work. Like a kaleidoscope, the combinations of these phenomena enable symmetric images to be generated via a single pattern cut on the block. With this idea in mind, Raquel has created this series of woodcuts to share with the viewer some qualities of water.
Water is a medium that erodes and accumulates sediments creating organic shapes in Nature. In the patterns of wood grain we can imagine the water movements that once gave life to a three, so woodcut allows exploring the different states of this compound that constantly changes our environment. On the other hand, water has a reflective quality that inverts and multiplies reality, a print is the result of two surfaces in contact with each other, i.e., the block and the paper. Reversal and reproduction are elements of traditional printmaking techniques which only the printmaker themselves experience, while the viewer sees only the results of the process, the final work. Like a kaleidoscope, the combinations of these phenomena enable symmetric images to be generated via a single pattern cut on the block. With this idea in mind, Raquel has created this series of woodcuts to share with the viewer some qualities of water.
Water is a medium that erodes and accumulates sediments creating organic shapes in Nature. In the patterns of wood grain we can imagine the water movements that once gave life to a three, so woodcut allows exploring the different states of this compound that constantly changes our environment. On the other hand, water has a reflective quality that inverts and multiplies reality, a print is the result of two surfaces in contact with each other, i.e., the block and the paper. Reversal and reproduction are elements of traditional printmaking techniques which only the printmaker themselves experience, while the viewer sees only the results of the process, the final work. Like a kaleidoscope, the combinations of these phenomena enable symmetric images to be generated via a single pattern cut on the block. With this idea in mind, Raquel has created this series of woodcuts to share with the viewer some qualities of water.
