Intaglio - Dialogue with the Edge

Perhaps more than any other art form, intaglio printing is concerned with process. Because of this, it can be said that intaglio printing may be the most expressionist of all forms/media of art.

In “Dialogue with the Edge” I address issues that interest me very much. For example, the printmaker has traditionally been constrained by the platemark. But my work is often sculptural and the image is often the negative space, thereby raising the question, “is the ‘white’ part the ‘image’ or is the imprinted part the ‘image’?” The issue of what defines image is not merely polemical, as I believe that life in general consists of the seen and the unseen. Getting from one to the other, as a matter of course, involves an edge.

Life is full of edges. I don’t mean (necessarily) visual edges, although there are certainly enough of those, and they comprise the nature of the dialogue of my work. What I mean is that visual edges only represent edges that can’t be seen. In that way Art is like a parable or a metaphor. In my own life, I crossed a boundary between “fine” and “commercial” art in a major way at least twice. The term “Hebrew” in the Hebrew language implies crossing over actual and implied edges. I find it is true that life consists of a dialogue with the edge of many things every day. Observing, listening to, speaking to ... living with the edge, finding the surprises of the edge is what “Dialogue with the Edge” is about.


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Line and Space EXHIBITIONS BLOGGING ON ART Personal associations are, I maintain, a legitimate even honored tradition in western art.	Intaglio - Dialogue with the Edge Perhaps more than any other art form, intaglio printing is concerned with process. Because of this, it can be said that intaglio printing may be the most expressionist of all forms/media of art. In “Dialogue with the Edge” I address issues that interest me very much. For example, the printmaker has traditionally been constrained by the platemark. But my work is often sculptural and the image is often the negative space, thereby raising the question, “is the ‘white’ part the ‘image’ or is the imprinted part the ‘image’?” The issue of what defines image is not merely polemical, as I believe that life in general consists of the seen and the unseen. Getting from one to the other, as a matter of course, involves an edge. Life is full of edges. I don’t mean (necessarily) visual edges, although there are certainly enough of those, and they comprise the nature of the dialogue of my work. What I mean is that visual edges only represent edges that can’t be seen. In that way Art is like a parable or a metaphor. In my own life, I crossed a boundary between “fine” and “commercial” art in a major way at least twice. The term “Hebrew” in the Hebrew language implies crossing over actual and implied edges. I find it is true that life consists of a dialogue with the edge of many things every day. Observing, listening to, speaking to ... living with the edge, finding the surprises of the edge is what “Dialogue with the Edge” is about. L. Joshua Goodman • Maoz Zion 90805 Israel ljoshuaprintmaker@gmail.com, Blog at http://jjamdesign.wordpress.com/ Copyright 2008 – All rights reserved.