Anybody interested let me know this week.  The cost is $650 which includes 6 prints and a case to hold them in.  3 of the prints are done so far.  I’ll be posting the 3rd image here in the next few days after I finish printing the edition.

Just email me or contact me through my website in order to find out more about the subscription I’m offering.  They’ll still be available to purchase and once complete available for purchase as a collection as well as individual prints.

Thanks.

As for ‘potential’, I believe it is a deceptive concept and potentially dangerous.  It requires extended focus on that which may only be – sometime in the future.  It creates expectations that may or may not be met.  About potential, I wonder… to me it is an idea that exists but not worth worrying too much about.  For instance, I like the idea that a piece of my art or an idea have the potential to touch someone in some way, but I don’t know how that might be or the extent to which it might happen.  More dangerous is when I think about my own potential, full of grand designs of success and all that I might someday accomplish.

I prefer the impossible (or improbable) and the problems that surround them.  It is the impossibilities and improbabilities that make life the grand worthwhile adventure worth living at all.  Much more exciting than all that is probable or certain… and really, let’s be honest, nothing’s for certain.

[this print is the finished print I spoke about in the 'winds shifted' post and is the first print in my subscription series]

All my work has a narrative streak and this one had in my head a narrative surrounding the squirrel at the top.  However, isn’t it always the way it is, that some person or story always seems to overshadow some other no less important story or character or idea.  In many ways I had placed myself in the character of the squirrel.  After all, art-making certainly centers around the artist and like it or not, I’m not immune to the narcissistic inclinations most artists have (or maybe it is just me).  The other story, the untold story is the impact that those seemingly unknown characters have on our lives.  The quieter side of our existence.  This is what I finally decided to honor with this print, though it’s certainly not to discredit the actions of the more active or ambitious.

It was quite a humbling experience really trying to place myself in the place of the stalwart musk ox.  I wanted him to be recognized.  I wanted to be recognized.  What a strong desire we have to be known, credited and appreciated.  The reality is though that this rarely happens, and so there are two ways to go from there…and the musk ox is no different.

Outwardly, there are multiple characters in this print, but the more I view it I start to think that these are two important facets of one self.  Two parts of a whole.  For what is one without the other.

More than anything else though, this print is ‘thank you,’ and you know who you are.

I’m sure to make it into a print eventually as well.  What do you think?  Wood Engraving or Color Moku Hanga print?

Asheville Art Mob & Andy Farkas from Aaron Morrell on Vimeo.

Sketch for 'The winds shifted...'

The winds shifted woodblock sketch

I started a new print a few days ago as well as a new direction

for me…personally.  Starting now I have a renewed ability and desire to focus on creating artwork.  This print represents that shift.

In the coming months I’ll also be starting a subscription service, where you’ll be able to subscribe and receive 6 prints a

year as well as a discount on existing works and works created in the year of your subscription.  I’m still ironing out the details…so more to come soon.  In the meantime I’m reveling in my newfound liscence to create.  A little more freely than I have in the past.

More on this print too as it progresses.

The making of this print from the book “river” was pretty different experience for me.  Using abstract colors and color combinations to attempt to convey one of the more abstract ideas from the book.  At first I had felt like this particular print was a failure but the more I look at it the more it grows on me.  When I first showed the book at the Flanders Gallery in Raleigh I was surprised at the response to this particular print.  It seemed to garner the most attention and was many people’s favorite from the book.  It comes from a part in the story where the river is about to finally take a rest from it’s constant flowing.  In essense, the river is actively instituting its own peace for itself at the expense of everything around it.  When I first conceived the story, this pivital moment I likened to those moments of selfish choice in our own lives and the consequences they lead to.  Now looking back it forces me to re-examine the notion of peace I’ve become accustomed to and perhaps most importantly how that idea is connected to all other things.

I promise to post the entire story in the near future…check back soon.