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Bushra Gill
paintings, drawings, prints
Roses
The roses in my recent pieces aren't random flowers. They were pictures that friends had taken of meaningful moments in their lives. I am drawn to the structure of the petals, and the contrast of the texture of the petals to the often vicious thorns lurking just underneath.
For this series, I made image transfers of the photos in various sizes, and then added a collagraph print of Islamic geometric patterns using my little etching press. There was additional collaging and painting until each little rose study felt like it could stand on its own. Some of the pieces got an additional embossing in the press; others were masked with handcut vignettes around the pattern on the other side. All of them got a few pieces of lasercut pattern pieces, which I think of as an underlying structure in the roses.