The majority of my artwork is done in printmaking. My prints are influenced not only by this media, but also by my studies in art history. I began being influenced by my professors in these studio areas while studying at Colby-Sawyer College. I am particularly interested in fabricating my photographed images into prints where the study and comparison of form remains an essential method of identifying the objects. I see most of my work to be about shape and the ways that an overall flatness can be spiced with portraits and forms that seem to overlap, turn on hinges, or pull sideways and back-and-forth over the piece.
Printmaking, in particular screen printing, is where I feel I can express myself the best in my life right now. Screen printing is a printing technique whereby a mesh is used to transfer ink onto a substrate, except in areas made impermeable to the ink by a blocking stencil. A blade or squeegee is moved across the screen to fill the open mesh apertures with ink, and a reverse stroke then causes the screen to touch the substrate momentarily along a line of contact. This causes the ink to wet the substrate and be pulled out of the mesh apertures as the screen springs back after the blade has passed.
Mark David Macenas 