Lino Cut Printing

I don’t work in linocut very often, but every once in a while I’m drawn back to it. There is something wonderfully unforgiving about the medium. You are working with solid black and white, with very little room for hesitation or correction. The process is slow and deliberate, requiring you to trust each cut as you build the image. What makes it especially interesting to me is that you have to think in reverse. You are not drawing the image you want to see; you are carving away everything you don’t want, leaving the positive form behind. That reversal can be frustrating at first, but it is also where much of the magic happens. You can spend hours carefully cutting away what seems like nothing, only to pull the first print and discover something you didn't quite expect. I don't have a huge body of linocut work, but I enjoy returning to the medium from time to time. It reminds me that sometimes the best way forward is to trust the process, make the cut, and see what remains.