Medicine for Memories

Description:	My work is of the imagination, and perceptions of the physical world too - mixed in the creative process with my favorite tools of ink and paper. This process of making art is my vehicle for understanding life.Ideas for artwork spring from my experiences, from traveling throughout Asia — and memory cultivates imagination. I make prints, and paper, and paintings as witness to my life.The monotype method of printmaking has painterly characteristics and a quality of being immediate, even if it might take extended periods of time, and many passes through the press. A monotype has unique print sensibility, being a one-of-a-kind and still a print. I feel a kinship with this method and most of my prints are monotypes.Making paper is simply fun. The basic materials of fibers and water combine to open up a rich field of creative possibilities. I frequently print an engraved line on the matrix of a poured paper pulp composition. Handmade paper takes a printed line beautifully. The flow in paper making and its wet to dry nature mirrors being alive; everything changes, what is once fragile becomes strong and vice versa, what is once raw and coarse becomes clarified and fine. I love the flow. (From Carol Brighton webpage)
Created By:	Brighton, Carol
Contributor(s):	Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition
Source:	http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/AMSSH/id/1198
Collection:	Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition Collection
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Copyright:	In Copyright
Subjects:	artists book art bookworks letterpress printing, prints

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