Printing Project

Printing is not a medium with which I feel comfortable. This is what made this project fun for me. I came into this project without the slightest idea of what I wanted to print, and looking back it is interesting to see how my intentions developed throughout the span of the project. I think the lorax is a compelling subject to print because there is so much meaning behind all that the lorax stands for, and is almost a universal symbol of environment protection. I think that printing the lorax standing on city streets and begging for money is an obvious statement about environmental protection because soon the lorax will not be able to "speak for the trees" because there will be none left. I printed the street scene on litho paper and I printed the lorax using a plastic card like carving  (cannot remember the name). Even though the printing process definitely felt unnatural to me, I like how my prints turned out in the end.