Experimental Printmaking Process
Thunderbird Editions
Clearwater, FL and Viewpoint Studio, Marshfield Hills, MA, 1998

"Plea"
30 x 22 inches (76 x 56 cm)
© Dorothy Simpson Krause 1997

In January, 1998 Dorothy Simpson Krause and Bonny Lhotka worked with Steve Carlisle at his Thunderbird Editions Studio in Clearwater, Florida on a project related to Florida's homeless population. With the cooperation of Everybody's Tabernacle, a local center for assistance, Steve took photographs of homeless people to produce an edition of original digital prints called Everybody's Tabernacle.
In Plea, which was begun at that time but not included in the Everybody's Tabernacle portfolio, Krause used three source images, a photograph of a woman, a gridded texture reminiscent of an aerial photograph, and a crackled surface.

Using an IRIS 3047G full-bleed print on 30"x22" Otami Indian Bark Paper as a collage, Krause added lace into some of the gridded squares, a small cross (just above Krause' left hand in the middle picture) and white highlights with oil paint. The image was rescanned on the Tangent 2'x3' flatbed scanner, printed on the Encad Novajet Pro 50 on 30"x22" QIS film and transferred to Arches rag paper. Plea is part of the portfolio, At the Edge, by Digital Atelier¸ for the Massachusetts College of Art. The portfolio including six digigraphs, two each by Lhotka, Schminke and Krause, and an essay by Francine Koslow Miller, was printed as an edition of 30.