Description
“Gather” by Yonina Rollack evokes the essence of companionship in this collagraph print featuring three young wolves. With simplified forms that suggest warmth and unity, this artwork captures the spirit of togetherness in the wild with humour and gentleness.
“Gather” by Yonina Rollack is the last available image in the artist’s Arctic Wildlife series. This series of prints plays with the negative space of the surrounding white page to convey the feeling of vast, snowy surroundings. In the Arctic Wildlife series, Yonina Rollack reduces forms to simplified shapes due to the nature of the collagraph printing process. In this process, the artist glues found materials to an aluminum plate and wipes it with ink to create textural impressions on the resulting printed paper. She soaks the paper in water before printing to help it absorb ink. After printing, she leaves it under a heavy weight to reduce – but never completely eliminate – wrinkling. Because of the distinctive nature of this process, no two original prints are the same.
“Varied edition” refers to original prints that the artist has hand-coloured or in some other way altered after printing is complete. This means that even within the sphere of original prints, each number in a varied edition varies even further from the others. The image shown here is the only artwork that looks exactly like this one.
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