Tessellation Catch-Up

Things are moving steadily forward with the EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print project at the end of 2024.  We have almost 60 linocut tiles in Albuquerque alone, and about the same amount in El Paso:

We are posting the individual linocuts online

We also hung our first "EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Exhibition" at Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque (on December 9th), piggybacking on their 12th Annual Juried International Print Exhibition, opening on Friday, December 13, 2024, 5 - 8 PM:

We hung our first EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print exhibition

at Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque

Our exhibition will be open on Friday and Saturdays until January 25th, 2025:

Our tessellation show is piggybacking on 

Remarque's 12th International Juried Print Exhibition

RECENT LINOCUTS

 Juan Wijngaard,

Corrales, New Mexico

Gabriele Teich,

Las Cruces, New Mexico 

Jessi Cross,

Santa Fe, New Mexico

SOUTHWEST TESSELLATING

Now we are collecting tessellation tiles all across the Southwest --from Tucson, El Paso in addition to Albuquerque -- reprising the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta somehow:

MANUEL GUERRA has collected about 50 tessellation linocuts in El Paso:

Manuel Guerra with Susan"Skuishi" Gonzalez

printing tessellation tiles in El Paso

JOE MARSHALL is collecting tessellation tiles in Tucson:

Joe Marshall 

heading up the tessellations in Tucson

Joe Marshall's tessellation print

in Tucson

• We also sent a stack of "hat" tessellation tiles to Tres Gatos Press in Guadalajara

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COLLABORATIVE 

TESSELLATION PRINTS

We have been  making EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Prints steadily since May 2024, and have blogged about each session:

• Exquisite TESSELLATION Prints
• Guerilla Tessellation Print -- at the South Broadway Cultural Center
• Santa Fe -- Exquisite Tessellation Print
• FUSION Tessellation -- in Albuquerque
• EL PASO Tessellation
• Tessellation Prints -- PRINTERS PLANET 2024
• Axle Contemporary -- Guerilla Print in Socorro
• Printing at Argos -- in Santa Fe
• CARVE-IT -- Tessellation Prints at HECHO A MANO gallery
• CNM -- Tessellation Printing
• SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA 2024 -- Tessellation After-Party
• Guerilla Tessellation Print -- Day of the Dead Parade Albuquerque 2024
• A Great Day at Remarque in Albuquerque -- Tessellations

SELECTED PRINTS

Guerilla Tessellation Print -- at the South Broadway Cultural Center

Our first big tessellation print,

June 14, 2024

Santa Fe -- Exquisite Tessellation Print

Printed at the Santa Fe Community College,

June 28, 2024

EL PASO Tessellation

Printed in El Paso,

July 15, 2024

CARVE-IT -- Tessellation Prints at HECHO A MANO gallery

Printed at Hecho A Mano gallery in Santa Fe,

September 14, 2024

SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA 2024 -- Tessellation After-Party

Printed during the Southwest Print Fiesta in Silver City,

October 12, 2024

A Great Day at Remarque in Albuquerque -- Tessellations

Printing in COLOR with Akua inks

at Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque,

November 23, 2024

OCTOBER SUMMARY -- 2024

Scott Wiggerman of Albuquerque

made this long print from the tiles he carved

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LASER CUTTING

We have been laser cutting the "hat" tiles so that they are all exactly the same shape, and will tessellate smoothly.  We can get as many as 7 tiles from a 12x18 inch piece of unmounted linoleum from Takach Press:

FILES

• LightBurn SINGLE "hat" file -- 7inch_hat_square.LBRN2  (10.51 KB)
• Single "hat" vector file -- EinStein.SVG  (689 bytes)

Laser Cutting "Hat" Tessellation Tiles

We can get as many as 7 "hat" tiles

from a 12x18 piece of linoleum

Laser Cutting "Hat" Tessellation Tiles

We got 57 "hat" tiles

from 8 sheets of 12x18 linoleum

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OTHER EXCITMENT

Tessellation Rumbling

Julie Sola of Las Vegas, New Mexico

carved a tessellation tile

Aprons -- Tessellation Prints

We printed individual tessellation tiles

on aprons

Live tessellation printing in Santa Fe

at HECHO A MANO gallery 

Kyle Durrie, organizer of the Southwest Print Fiesta,

accepts one of our big tessellation prints

Julie Hayes is up for carving a linocut,

after winning the maze 

designed and laser cut by Jared Tarbell

Julie Hayes suggested making a collaborative ceramic tessellation piece.  We already 3D printed a "hat" cookie cutter shape.  So why not roll out a slab of clay, cut it into "hat" shapes, and get people to sculpt a design in each piece -- say at Tumbleroot bar and Pottery Pub in Santa Fe, where they let patrons sculpt while they drink beer.  Then we could piece everything together to make a bigger collaborative tessellation mosaic:

CARVE-IT -- Tessellation Prints at HECHO A MANO gallery

Download -- "hat-monotile-cookiecad.STL" (295.88 KB)

to 3D print a Tessellation cookie cutter

FISKARS FUSE

PORTABLE PRESS

We ordered a FISKARS FUSE CREATIVITY SYSTEM to be used as a portable press.  Since they no longer make them we had to order it through Ebay, and it came in on December 7, 2024:

We hope to use FISKARS FUSE CREATIVITY SYSTEM

as a relief press

The FISKARS FUSE folds up

and has a carrying handle

The FISKAR FUSE system is made for embossing -- but not for printmaking.  However we can add a print bed and easily convert it to a portable printing press, as Mark Zepezauer did at the Southwest Print Fiesta 2024:

 

SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA 2024 -- Vendors: PART 1 

The FISKARS FUSE 

converted into a printing press

The more portable the press, the easier it is to spontaneously print anywhere -- and more 8x8 inch prints will be made -- such as individual tessellation prints.  The FISKARS FUSE is portable in that it folds up and has a carrying handle.  However it might be too heavy to carry long distances.  

On the other hand, the heavy rollers will probably make better and more consistent prints.