We went to Socorro, New Mexico on September 1, 2024, to side-bust on AXLE CONTEMOPORARY -- making a guerilla tessellation print in front of their mobile art van -- while they were taking photos for their E Pluribus Unum: Mogollon project:
The Axle Exquisite Tessellation Print
The Artists (left to right):
- Nicholas Tesluka (Albuquerque)
- Greta Young (Santa Fe)
- Krrrl (Albuquerque)
- Axle Contemporary (Santa Fe)
- John Tollett (Santa Fe)
- Ellie Weadock (Albuquerque)
- Henry Morales (Albuquerque)
parked in the main plaza of Socorro, New Mexico
First arrangement
They decided to print this arrangement
Matthew inked all the tiles on the board
at once
The printing/inking table
Inking all the tiles at once
Printing with the Estampador Manual hand brayer
The Final Print!
LASER ENGRAVED
We laser engraved the Axle Contemporary logo into linoleum at Quelab makerspace,, to make both tessellation and "street taco-sized" prints:
The Axle logo
laser engraved into linoleum
On the laser cutter at Quelab
INK PADS
Ink pads from Hobby Lobby
Inking the Axle round linocut
with the red ink pad
After tucking the inked linocut inside a notepad,
Matthew pressed down with an Iron Frog glass baren
- Maybe we should have just driven over the notepad with the Axle van
The print came out a bit faint
We tried again with the regular relief ink
The regular Speedball SuperGraphic black ink
made a darker print
as seen from the gazebo in the plaza
of Socorro, New Mexico
The photographs so far
from Axle's E Pluribus Unum: Mogollon project
The photographs so far
from Axle's E Pluribus Unum: Mogollon project
OUR PREVIOUS AXLE
Print Show
We had previously exhibited BUCKET PRINTS in the Axle Contemporary van in July 2022:
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