More cicada wings

After the print exchange with the UK, we next are going to make a
handmade book to put our prints in.

The theme continues, but can be different. I still did wings but have
made them more mixed media.

By collaging wings onto gelatine plate printing backgrounds, then
adding silver, gold or copper leaf, they are more individual and
abstract concepts.

Print Exchange - from Australia to the UK.

I did finish a project this year, being included in a print exchange overseas.

'Summer's song' shows a silver leaf cicada wing as a museum-inspired display
tag. It has a suitably aged piece of twine attached, and has been made more rustic
by the addition of tea wash.

 The wing is enclosed in a perspex window. 

 It shimmers with the addition of silver leaf.  

 The combination of text and art.

My poem

Summer's song

Cicadoidea. 

Season's minstrels,

sing an exceptionally 

strident song.

Membranous
cellaphanous wings 

shimmer, 

and unfold.

Freedom, 

after emergence, 

 from slumber 

deeply entombed.

The printmaking company I keep. Helen's wonderful coastal scene incorporating 

real seaweed printing. Lorraine's owl portrait.