Componente

Mixed media xylocollage paste-up, Moseley, Birmingham, UK

Homemade baren (top)

Homemade baren (bottom)

 

I used two techniques to create this paste-up: xylography and collage. It was made with the same woodblock I used to create an earlier piece named ‘Component,’ referring to the many elements that were used to create it. Its base is paper, and I used my homemade baren to press the paper to the wood to transfer the image. Professional wallpaper glue was used to stick it to the wall.

Curator’s Notes: Paste-up is a composition on a sheet of paper, board, or other backing applied to a wall usually using wheatpaste. This technique allows street artists to put up detailed images quickly.

Xylography is an ancient printing technique developed in China and Japan in the 8th and 9th centuries. The image in carved in relief into a wooden block, which is then inked. Paper is pressed to the block to transfer the image.

Baren refers to a hand tool with a flat bottom and a knotted handle used in Japanese Japanese woodblock printing to burnish the back of the paper in order to transfer ink from the plate to the sheet.

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