Visual Artist (Painting, Printmaking, Mixed Media); Folklorist; Poet/Performance Artist; and, Independent Curator. Di Falco received the City of Philadelphia's Award in Arts and Culture for 2009 for...
This print (from my series of several different images that deal with gargoyles on gothic cathedrals) shows one of Notre Dame's gargoyles with a Chine Colle overlay. I based this image on a photo that I shot in Paris in 1987. The entire edition (size of twenty-five) is executed using CHINE COLLE, a printing method that incorporates color by adhering colored papers (in this case, Thai mulberry bark Unryu paper) to the inked plate before rolling it through the press. Each print is a one-of-a-kind etching in that the placement of the colored paper and its cut form are usually different for each print. I use an oil-based, black ink from France called Charbonnel, and the paper is Rives BFK (100% cotton, also from France). The intimate image size (size of the actual zinc plate) is only three inches wide (7.6cm) by two inches high (5.8cm); the frame size is approximately 9.5 inches by 11.5 inches (23cm x 28.5cm). All mats are museum quality. Price does not include shipment or insurance during shipment.