Screen printing

A month and a half ago I did an introduction course into screen printing. Ever since I go every Friday faithfully to the workshop to make some more prints. The medium is perfect to capture the mystifying city with all its layers. The different print layers allow me to represent an aspect of city life. I recently started working on a serie, which I call Carte postale, of which 2 will be shown at the ProofDruk exhibition at de Haagse Kunstkring. Carte postale refers to an old post card collection book, which I bought years ago on a flee market. It is falling a part, but its title still has a golden shimmer: Carte Postale.
My prints are a bit like post cards. They show the cities I know, not in photographic sense. They attempt to clarify the scene shown, how it flows and functions, how things relate to one another. Each printing layer shows an aspect of city life in certain location in an abstracted version: Architectural relationships through abstracted geometric shapes, the reality through a photograph and movements through tape or sticky vinyl.

Carte Postale 1

Carte Postale 2