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Blue Sky Skyscrapers No. 1 - Limited Edition of 10 Artwork

Iskra Johnson

United States

Mixed Media, Digital on Paper

Size: 24 W x 31 H x 0.1 D in

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Blue Sky Skyscrapers, Limited edition of 10 Image size: 17 x 22 on a 24 x 31 inch sheet On Moab rag paper printed with archival pigment inks Print is signed just below the image and may be framed with or without a mat. This print is created from a mix of my original photography and ink painting on Braille paper. The texture of the Braille creates a subliminal message of language and touch. This scene occurred to me as I was at the Braille library picking up some magazines: I stood outside the library and looked up. It was one of Seattle's glorious blue sky days. This is what it felt like, as though just by holding the pages of raised raised white dots I was attuning to the sense of touch, bringing the sometimes intimidating and distant city near. During the pandemic millions of people have been without human touch for over a year. This piece came out of thinking about that, and how we can use our senses and our imaginations to reconnect to each other, and to the cities, which need us to return. I have been painting on the Braille paper with ink and printmaking techniques, exploring how the liquid pigments interact with texture and language.

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Mixed Media:Digital on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:10

Size:24 W x 31 H x 0.1 D in

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Throughout my work I explore impermanence as it occurs in the urban landscape and in nature. My architectural prints and mixed media pieces focus on the radical reshaping of the built landscape through gentrification and de-industrialization. As we are confronted with change and our relationship to it, I am interested in the question of how much of the past we value and hold onto, and how much we let go to make the future our “now.” My work lives on the edge between nostalgia and accommodation, mediating through the elements of surface and iconic structure to a conversation about history, identity and sense of place. I have been a calligrapher and letter form artist for much of my professional art career, creating well known brandmarks for film, books and packaging. I have created custom typographic identities for Kitty Kelly, Clive Barker, Naomi Judd, and Anne Rice among others, and movie titling for Dreamworks and Walt Disney. As a fine artist I bring my passion for mark making and the architecture of letter forms into the abstract realm. I have a calligrapher's subtle sense of surface and texture, and incorporate calligraphic mark making into many of my pieces. I use photography, digital composition, printmaking, mixed media and collage, shifting as needed to suit my subject matter. I embrace new media and the infinite ways in which the analog and the digital can be shaken, stirred and poured into a new creative form.

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