This is my first intaglio print, done in the drypoint technique. The title Charlie and the Moonbird has to do with Charlie, the old, old donkey who used to graze in the field adjacent to my house in County Mayo, Ireland.
One morning I looked out and there he lay on his side, dead. It made me very sad - this animal always had displayed so much stubborn quirkiness. I felt compelled to somehow make the donkey live on in one of my works.
On this first print the personification of Death,
a Moonbird, talks to Charlie.
The second print shows donkey and bird on their way to the Beyond.
a Moonbird, talks to Charlie.
The second print shows donkey and bird on their way to the Beyond.
Aluminium plates, drypoint, carborundum.
Charbonnel etching ink on Fabriano Rosaspina paper. 2005.
Size: 15 x 13 cm.
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