'Constructed City' 8: Designated Break

All Images: 'Constructed City' Screen Prints (Work in Progress), Leicester Print Workshop, December 2019

At the risk of over-saturating the internet with yet more images of my 'Constructed City' screen prints in progress - here is the last instalment of the year/decade.  Apologies if anyone is bored with these, but it still seems preferable to keep reporting on ongoing activity, than to go dark in the absence of definitively completed work.

Leicester Print Workshop is closed now, until mid January - so I was pleased to have grabbed a last chance to put in a few hours just before Christmas, if only to maintain the gentle, but steady momentum that's built around this project.  The studio lay-off also allows time for a little reflection on what's been achieved to date, and how things might progress in the new year.  There's a sizeable stack of these closely-related images now - some of them having reached a considerable level of intensity and multi-layered complexity.  But the reality is, these wallpapered girder motifs were originally only intended to supply a kind of background layer for more photographically detailed elements, as per my original sketchbook collages.

'Constructed City' Sketchbook Collage Study, October 2019

It's probably the case that some of these are already a little too concentrated to serve that purpose, but it's definitely still my intention to combine at least some with less abstracted elements.  The current plan is that many such new motifs will be arrived at as four-colour separations; which will both capitalise on the training course I completed at LPW, last year -  and give visitors here a different kind of work-in-progress shot (if nothing else) in 2020.  In fact, the ultimate aim is that these 'CC' pieces should eventually build into much larger composites, through a process of collage - spreading exponentially, in much the same way that new developments are currently filling-in significant sections of the Leicester street map, and skyline.

Consequently, whilst I suspect there'll be no shortage of 'Sit. Rep.'-type bulletins to come - I can also only hope that what you see here (and in various recent posts), will eventually be revealed as merely the early stages of something rather more impressive.  As ever - we'll see...